The Circle Shop and the Sky Thief

If you carved out the best twenty years from a sixty-year-old pine, how would you sell the remaining, fragmented forty years? It was like demanding only the lean meat from a slab of pork at the butcher’s—simply rude. Fortunately, the customer understood and bought the whole thing.

She handed him a carefully packaged sphere—a Time Orb. Don’t get the wrong idea