<strong>Paradox (NYC)</strong><br/><br/>It's when they start to close the door in his face that sets it off. A flash of desperation, the need to pull some sort of advantage out, and then it happens.<br/><br/>Suddenly the slamming of the door is happening much slower. Sounds in the hotel lesson, lower, barely exist on the edges of the senses.<br/><br/>Taking advantage of it, Paradox steps inside while they are trying to close the door. He's not so fast that they don't notice but it certainly doesn't matter. He watches the chronometer of one of them as he squeezes past them and the door.<br/><br/>About 10 seconds seems to pass by before it even acknowledges 1, matching his own internal chronometer. Strolling leisurely, and happening to do it faster then a man can run thanks to his relative timeframe, he finds Val and calmly takes a seat in front of her. He considers seeing if he can speed up others, but Valerie was connected to other Valeries in a way not even he was sure how deep. Best to save that for an emergency.<br/><br/>The clock starts moving normally with a thought to order it to do so.<br/><br/>"<strong>Apologies for the dramatics, but we need to talk.</strong>"