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This might be the most groundbreaking artifact we've discovered on the planet. It appears to be a simple gear with a slight blue hue to it. However, nothing on this primitive world could have made it. It's just too well machined, the metal's internal structure is too consistent. Perfect craftsmanship.
But that's not the impressive part.
The gear seems to allow anything in contact with it to interact with the world without any time passing. I have yet to ascertain the mechanism through which it achieves this effect, but my initial hypothesis was that the artifact passively generates a bubble of distorted time around itself, and that contact with it allows one to maneuver within that bubble.
We've been able to perform a number of tests, and my colleagues have noted that they are unable to observe events occurring under the effects of the bubble - only the outcomes once its influence is released, such as a coffee cup appearing to teleport when moved by the bearer of the gear. This suggests the artifact does not just massively accelerate relative time, but actually separates its bubble from the flow of time entirely.
I've since become our designated guinea pig for experiments with this object, but I must admit it is no selfless sense of duty or scientific curiosity that motivates me. I feel I cannot adequately describe the sensation of being freed from the yoke of time. At first it seemed a liberty most compelling, but instead it has affected me... profoundly.
I see them, my colleagues. I see their still faces, as fish suspended in a frozen waterfall of un-time, and I cannot bear to be one of them.
The thought of becoming another statue within this inner world, my body, mind, and soul arrested between the seconds ticking on the clock, fills me with dread I believe my kind was never meant to know. I cannot bring myself to relinquish this, cannot convince myself to put the gear down again.
So I continue my work, my study; in silence, in stillness.
In perpetuity.
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