A Hollow tree lay on the ground in the green blue forest. The tree pointed from the past where it was now into the future where it would be. Cold and broken wet and old was the tree. It had been there since it had fallen years ago. Looking inside the tree was green moss and silence. A crystal ball was inside barely alive and pulsing. Inside the crystal was a note of today encoded in a language unknown. A voice began to speak from the crystal. The voice said backwards: these are the years which have already been. Forward goes no time again! The snowflakes that fell were 4. Those are the years which will melt away until over. The future was already told of how it will be and why it can happen. Once the future is seen it has to...