10 Minute Hourglass 소설 & 이야기

A timer I hadn’t noticed before. 59 minutes remaining. I had one hour. One hour to make a choice. One hour to survive. And I realized… one hour wasn’t nearly enough.

He walk slowly while peek out in thet window of their classroom near the hallway. Guard was already on the stairs, he tried to look everywhere on the first floor but he can't find Felix. He continuously step up in the stairs. And when he reach on the second floor of the building. He saw Felix peeking at the window. "You!" The guard shouted and walk fast towards where Felix were. A sudden ringing of the school bell signal the students to moved to their next class. 'Krrrrinnnnggg!' A sound of the school bell. It was at the same time shouting of the guard and ringing of the school bell that is why Felix didn't heard the shout of the guard.

"They stay down this time." He glanced at his watch. "Countdown started. Seventy-two hours."

"Why would he let a girl compete?" I hear all kinds of gossip around me. My father told me not to mind them. I just need to show them what I got. Shortly after, the showcase had started. The first event was the quiz bee. All the contestants were in their place. All we had to do was press the buzzer in front of us if we knew the answer. "First question, the Sengoku period lasted for how many years?" without hesitation, I pressed the buzzer first. "133 years." I answered. I was correct and the crowd cheered. Question after question I got the answers correct. It was time for the last question and I had the lead in points.

There were words showed and an hourglass in the wall, Joy was watching the rule carefully so she was not aware that Baby was flying towards the totem carrying with Happy. "Every participant will need to stay on the same piece and is permitted to practice power to move the pieces to swap places. The pieces can only move in parallel direction. You have one hour to move yourself to the open space. If participants cannot finish the game within required time, you need to start over again." The sand in the hourglass on the stone wall began to run. Joy waited for Sunshine to speak first, but it had come to her notice that Sunshine was silently counting the pieces.

And I am tired of being so grown up. "What about the bus?" I ask. He checks his phone. "Ten twenty three. We have twenty seven minutes before the next one. That is enough time for pie." Twenty seven minutes. "Okay," I say. "Pie." He stands up first. He is taller than I thought. He must be six feet tall, maybe a little more. He holds out his hand to help me up, and I look at it for a moment. Long fingers. Pencil bump on the thumb.

We had come this far, and the path ahead was clear, even if the details were obscured in mystery. Without hesitation, we stepped through the barrier and approached the old woman. She handed us the hourglass, its sands shimmering like stardust. "The Hourglass of Eternity. It can navigate the stream of time, taking you to the very beginning. Use it wisely." As the hourglass touched our hands, a rush of memories flooded our minds. Scenes from our past, both individually and together, replayed like a montage. The hourglass was connecting us to the moments that had shaped our journey, perhaps showing us the way forward.

Aranjo took hold of her shoes and ran after the demon back into the reading room. The Emperor stopped in front of his desk and pulled out an hourglass using his magic. Aranjo busily put her shoes back on and looked at the hourglass that the demon had placed on the table. "Remember to turn this hourglass upside down when you arrive and make sure you return to your place when this hourglass runs out!" the Emperor said as he turned the hourglass upside down and walked away from the reading room. The hourglass has the power to slow down time and after the hourglass runs out the power also disappears and time returns to normal.

It had the kind of vision to make one look at it feel sick. It was then, after he handed me the object, and stretched back his arm that I realized what it was. An hourglass. I brought it up in front of my eyes. My orbs followed the tiny grains slipping down mixing with the pile making it larger. The sand was running fast. "Time is running out, make the most of it. Before you have to return to where you belong."

He murmured gruffly, his gaze surprisingly gentle, yet holding my droopy ones intently. “Why would you think that, I barely even slept” I murmured, my voice sounding barely above a whisper. “What kind of law in this advanced universe states that sleeping over ten hours is considered ‘barely slept’?” he demanded, his tone oozing off playful sarcasm. My eyes nearly bulged out of their sockets. “What??!... Ten hours?!” I yelled and he nodded with a shrug. “Ten hours, eight minutes and thirty four seconds to be precise” he read from the luxurious Graff Diamond watch strapped around his wrists.