Time - Lord Exclusive

When Elara emerged from the Obsidian Tower, she was no longer eleven. She was ageless. The GTA scientists saw her step through the fracture's edge, and for a moment, they saw every version of her at once—the child, the woman, the crone, the ghost. Then she resolved into a figure that was simply Elara: dark-haired, gray-eyed, wearing a crown that ticked softly in the silence.

Elara grew up inside the fracture's influence, in a settlement called Obsidian Tower—a black spire of unknown origin that had erupted from the earth on the day of her birth. The Tower hummed at a frequency just below hearing. Its walls shimmered with symbols that no linguist could decode, but that Elara could read by the age of four. When asked what they said, she replied, “They are the seconds between seconds. The space where time goes to rest.” time lord

“Who are you?” Elara asked.