What is "chron"

Usage examples of "chron".

I whittled as sharp a point as I could on one end while the young Chron watched me avidly.

Skinny little Chron looked better and certainly had more energy than he had shown only ten days earlier.

Noch, Chron, and even broken-armed Pirk related a wondrous tale of how I had single-handedly slain the dragon guarding them and brought them to freedom in Paradise.

I learned that night that Chron and most of the other men of my band had also been born while their parents toiled in the garden, Noch, I knew, had been taken out of Paradise in early childhood.

I touched a stick to the flame as Chron plunged his burning brand into the brush.

Now we were trapped with the enraged monsters pinning Chron and me against the cliff wall.

Turning, I saw Chron with his spear butted against the rock, desperately trying to stave off the dragon that was clawing at him.

Again I rammed my spear into the undefended belly of the beast while Chron stabbed higher, nearer the heart.

It bent over to snap at Chron with its frightening teeth, and even I felt its breath, hot and stinking of half-digested flesh.

And Chron was bubbling with the anticipation of telling the villagers all our news.

All the villagers were grouped around Chron and me, staring at us with troubled, frightened eyes.

Whether it was the masters whom I was trying to escape or Set himself in contact with me despite the distance separating us, the message was perfectly clear: either I surrender myself or Chron and all the villagers will be painfully, mercilessly slaughtered.

I wondered what had befallen Chron and Vorn and the other slaves that I had freed.

Most of the latter research, after a number of failures, was aimed at short-term chron jumps.

And someone who could lend a hand with setting and operating the complex range of controls for the chron jump.