Alex finally thinks of an old friend who would be the perfect person to risk all in an attempt to win high rewards. Sadly the meeting does not go the way Alex might have wished.
Princess Trissitia flies Sam to his luxury quarters in King Flenkt's palace, but her intentions towards him are not what Sam was hoping for. Their trip to the Temple of the Anting ends with a very strange and worrying ceremony.
Alex reaches the garage shop, finds some food and drink, then examines his crystal hoard and makes a discovery about crystal visibility. In medieval Geneva Catriona submits herself to examination by the Hospital Master. Meanwhile Sofie and the doctor challenge Alex in the shop.
Marianne finally gets what she wants more than anything else, the chance to talk to Danny, but she finds his mental state very worrying. She tells Sofie she is going with him to the Cafeteria. Sofie goes to the Fire Station and rejoins her team for a short but sombre ceremony.
Marianne finally gets what she wants more than anything else, the chance to talk to Danny, but she finds his mental state very worrying. She tells Sofie she is going with him to the Cafeteria. Sofie goes to the Fire Station and rejoins her team for a short but sombre ceremony.
With much rejoicing the stolen Cosmic Egg is carried across Argolathia and into an underground city where Sam is visited first by King Flenkt and then by Princess Trissitia.
Professor Francesco Romani, Director General of CERN, and Brigit O'Brien, Irish Ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, arrive in the Medical Centre to find out how Marianne is getting on. But they have very different ideas about what the priority actions should be.
Sam witnesses the double treachery of Marshall Gallrage, but the Argolaths have their revenge. Meanwhile Catriona only travels a short way down the Time Tunnel before disaster strikes.
George Gabor fails to find Catriona in the ATLAS cavern, but he finds more crystal which he uses to revive Francesco Romani, Brigit O’Brien and Ludovico Narkosa. But his failure to prevent the death of Robert Moore triggers a haunting memory.
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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.