The scriptures say that quicker is not exactly it, truthfully, but that all things exist concurrently to Ancient Time, beginning, middle, and end. The Mice inform Time the correct order of which things are meant to occur as they are of the mortal world, and remind the Ancient Power that things most progress in a... line, as opposed to how time perceives to Spirits, which is a spiral.
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So the priests have learned, at least.