Time-Locked Town

By Yasmin Parveen

Characters – Delano (outsider) Human 

Senalia(insider) Time Lord

Town-Andromeda 

(Time passes slowly within  its boundries)

Genre : Fantasy , Sci-fi,mystery 

Delano comes for business in this time stricken mystified town where time passes slowly double the length to the outside world . If it’s one day outside then it’s two days inside .And abruptly falls for a magnificent red headed lady who is nothing less than a Greek godess but she doesn’t gives-a penny-a-thought to Delano doesn’t so much as look in his direction.One day while he’s going through his business affairs exchanging goods she saw him talking to a little boy who looked awfully in need of food and shelter needless to say but the boy had no money to buy even a candy . Senalia is captivated by what she saw next , the man, Delano swirls and wirls his hands in an enchanting magical order and then asks the boy to open one of his fists the boys giggles enthusiastically and opens the right one where he finds three gold coins enough for him to last four months the boy looks at him adoringly and wirh new-found hope, hugs Delano and bids his goodbye. Senalia steps forward and asks for the man’s name and the rest is history .Then one day the time comes to leave for Delano and he’s torn between staying and leaving but he knows he's to go and promises his lover to wait until he comes back again finally to be with her, together  for eternity

but Senalia is greedy and she’s also the Time Lord the lord who made the bizzare time scenario of Andromeda . He doesn’t know that and regardless falls for her . But Senalia knows he’s never going to leave the grounds of Andromeda because she’s trapped him in this time-nefarious- cycle. She orders Time itself  to slow down.

To make those two days feel like four days .And here comes the twist in the tale. Delano knows what’s  her secret and knew a time will come where Senalia would ask him to stay forever because it was no secret to him that she’s the one behind the  misbehaving mystified time scenario to begin with.

He I” not in love with her. She’s fallen head over heels for him would Delano be able to unveil her identity and protect the Andromedans from the time trouble equation and the Time Lord herself or will he fall in her trap like others…

By Yasmin Parveen