Discord actually smiled at her. Olivia had fought with only a knife wearing nothing but an exposure suit, she’d seen people cut into pieces to be harvested. Somehow Discord’s smile was more terrifying. “If he had killed them. That isn’t death, it’s a conversion to another kind of life. Bodies meant to observe a developing planet along geologic timescales. They will surely resist as soon as they realize what has happened. But by the time they do, thousands of years will have passed in mere seconds to them. Unless someone does something about it.”