Causal — Nexus

“Wally learns the hard way that good intentions don't off set the consequence of time travel... Wally's actions have already set off a chain of events that can't be stopped.” Fanfiction.net

For years, Elias had been haunted by a memory: a silver-haired man giving him this very notebook when he was just a boy. "The world ends in fire," the man had whispered. "Unless you build the Machine." Causal Nexus

He emerged decades in the past, in the same Library, before the rot had set in. There, he saw a young version of himself reading by a window. Elias looked down at his hands—they were aged, his hair now a shock of silver. He walked toward the boy, the charred notebook heavy in his hand. “Wally learns the hard way that good intentions

Elias stood in the ruins of the Great Library, clutching a charred leather notebook. He was a "Time-Sensitive," capable of feeling the hum of a —a point where time tracks diverged and collided. "Unless you build the Machine

Elias spent his life following the equations in the notebook. He built the Chronos Engine, a device capable of piercing the veil of the multiverse. But as the engine roared to life, the Library began to burn. The friction of the time-fissure ignited the ancient scrolls.