"I think techinically the compression wiped out most of the planet before it was broken and everything was restored, but yeah," Nida shrugged. More things on heaven and earth.

Of course that didn't get into the haunted look in his eyes at remembering what it'd been like. That brief moment that you felt, deep in your core, that something was wrong. The body later coming to terms with the fact that it just hadn't existed for a while, later on. Most people were lucky, they didn't know what had happened so they hadn't noticed. Nida had been braced for it.

Nothing like non-existence itself to make mortality that much more pressing.

"I mean, it's a lot bigger of a scale, but you get used to time based magic. Or you do when you're fighting monsters who can sling stop and slow spells."