GRADUAL INTERVIEW SPOILER WARNING!   ..........   Spoilers - The Runes of the Earth Duane P. Dawson:  Hello, I appreciate your answer to one of my questions, and would like to resubmit my other question now. Why did Anele answer that the falls started about 100 years ago when he himself was carried off by one 3000 years ago? I realize that the falls travel can travel back in time to nab him, but how would he know that? For that matter Liand answered the same question about the same, but wouldn't they have the impression that falls go further back? Thanks! By definition, stories that deal in violations of chronological time rely on concepts which are difficult to grasp (being entirely non-rational). Here's the best I can do (today, anyway). Characters like Liand talk about "present time"; about what they themselves, or their immediate ancestors, have experienced. From their perspective in the present, caesures first appeared about 100 years ago. They would have no way of knowing that caesures extend into the past because, in a very literal sense, Joan didn't start making them until 100 years ago (Land time). Anele says what he does because he's "reading" it off the rubble of Kevin's Watch. He isn't sane enough to interpret his personal experience. All he knows--all he's able to know--is what the rocks tell him. And stone preserves the memory of chronological time. (Otherwise caesures wouldn't damage stone.) So from the perspective of the rubble of Kevin's Watch also, Joan didn't start making caesures until 100 years ago. I hope that future installments in "The Last Chronicles" will shed more light on this subject. (09/28/2007)