Sam and Trissitia arrive at the bottom of the tunnel, although they have both been blinded by the light of the Big Bang. Here they find the Entroilian larvae which Cjingha put into the Cosmic Egg, the Argolath sons of King Flenkt and a beautiful big blue crystal.
Catriona is tried for witchcraft and found guilty by a fraudulent trick. But before she can be burnt the Chateau is attacked by Genevan soldiers and this gives the Hospital Master the opportunity to get his revenge upon her.
As the firefighters return to CERN with their provisions they meet Alex who is hurrying to rescue Marianne and they give chase. Meanwhile Francesco and Danny are investigating the properties of crystal in the lab.
As the firefighters return to CERN with their provisions they meet Alex who is hurrying to rescue Marianne and they give chase. Meanwhile Francesco and Danny are investigating the properties of crystal in the lab.
King Flenkt's horrible plans for the 'Cosmic Egg' involve Sam and Trissitia entering the tunnel which Michael Zhang made in the Universe and so going rapidly back in time.
With the help of the friar, Catriona survives the night in the chapel and in the morning she is rescued from the plague hospital by soldiers from the Château de Peney, only to find herself in an even worse situation.
Marianne finds comfort in the concept that her baby died for a purpose: to save the world, but the very idea of a religious association appals atheist Danny. Marianne and Alex see each other through their crystals at different times and with very different results.
Finding himself tricked into marriage with Trissitia, Sam tries to avoid the wedding night by telling her about his sterility, brought on by an infection of mumps. But Trissitia is not so easily deterred.
24 min
About Time Crystal 2
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The story so far:
When Irish school teacher Sam Fitzpatrick and CERN scientist Michael Zhang are absorbed by a black hole, they find themselves outside the Universe on a planet populated by gigantic insect-like Entroilians and Argolaths. The Universe is merely part of their elaborate lifecycle. Michael breaks the crystal machinery surrounding it and fragments fall into the Universe where time stops everywhere except near these crystals.
Sam can talk to people who hold crystal, and the insects think they can fix the machinery and restart time, so he tells his step-daughter Catriona O'Brien to collect all the fragments and bring them down the time tunnel. But handsome Hungarian entrepreneur Alex Karolyi knows that firefighter George Gabor will not allow crystals to be removed from CERN. When George tries to catch them Alex flees and Catriona tries to fly into the Time Tunnel.
So begins an epic adventure that will take Catriona on a journey back through the whole history of the Universe. Time Crystal is a timeless adventure-romance including domains both great and small you have never experienced before. Few works of fiction have ever encompassed such a range of ideas and environments, such sheer imaginative scale.