Changeling
““Flooded? In Arizona? How is that possible?”
Jade squeezed her eyes shut, recalling the vision from the Hypogeum. She had seen a round chamber at the end of the passage, and the three circles that appeared to be linked but really weren’t. There had not been any water. She related exactly what she had seen to Professor.
“I think…” She hesitated. “Could this be how the timelock mechanism works?”
Professor nodded in understanding. “That makes sense. Water clocks have been around a long... time. The Chinese may have created water clocks as far back as six thousand years ago. Water flows at a constant rate. Even though this is the desert, there’s plenty of rainfall in the monsoon season. Rainfall on the top of the rock seeps down and recharges the reservoir. Throw in a sufficiently complex clockwork mechanism, and you could make a water clock that keeps time over very long periods.”
“So we have to wait until it drains?”MoreLess
Jade squeezed her eyes shut, recalling the vision from the Hypogeum. She had seen a round chamber at the end of the passage, and the three circles that appeared to be linked but really weren’t. There had not been any water. She related exactly what she had seen to Professor.
“I think…” She hesitated. “Could this be how the timelock mechanism works?”
Professor nodded in understanding. “That makes sense. Water clocks have been around a long... time. The Chinese may have created water clocks as far back as six thousand years ago. Water flows at a constant rate. Even though this is the desert, there’s plenty of rainfall in the monsoon season. Rainfall on the top of the rock seeps down and recharges the reservoir. Throw in a sufficiently complex clockwork mechanism, and you could make a water clock that keeps time over very long periods.”
“So we have to wait until it drains?”MoreLess
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