[ Matt's mind is quiet for all this, though far from inactive. He soaks in what Aetós says like a sponge--or perhaps more accurately, like a prism. Taking the input, translating it through his own imperfect lens to see what he can make of it.

The Timestream, as alluded to, doesn't make immediate sense to Matt. Except perhaps in the sense that the realm of the spirit strikes him as operating independently of time as the living, the embodied, tend to know it. Linear, indefatigable, unstoppable. He puts a bookmark in the concept for a moment. ]

Would it be more accurate to say, then, that you're able to stop time in a designated area? So when the effect ends, time has ... either passed around people or things inside the area, and they haven't experienced time. Or time has only passed within the area?

[ A mental huff, irked. ]

Sorry if I'm not making sense. Words aren't always my medium.