Isle of Time

 I found myself on an island, but I did not know how I got there. I simply awoke and found myself there it was an Island surrounded by dark waters. I looked for a far shore but saw nothing but darkness. It was when I looked inland that I saw the vast castle. I turned from the castle and looked into the dark water around the island. I leaned down and placed my hand in the dark water. I felt the torrents under the surface of the waters, and I could see where my hand had entered the waters It was shriveling in the waters as if aging at a rapid rate. I quickly pulled my hand out of the water and saw that my hand was indeed shriveled, but it was slowly returning to normal. I could not understand it was a though the water could age what you put into it.  

I decided to travel to the castle at the heart of the island. As I traveled, I saw signs of trees that were by the water growing and withering and regrowing as if time had accelerated for them. Places where the water touched seemingly aging at an accelerated rate and then being restored to a younger state. I came to believe that this was the place at the heart of time. As I got closer to the castle, I could see streams of dark water coming from the castle. The castle looked deserted, and it seemed to be in aging and falling apart before my eyes, but then I would look, and it would be restored as if newly built. I saw the great doors of the castle and pushed them open. As I entered the castle, I saw the interior it was a place that seemed to be both young and newly built and as old as creation. I walked through the castle and that was when I first saw them.  

Beings moved through the castle; they seemed to be moving through the castle, and I could see that they were aging before my eyes. With each step I saw these beings changing and aging at once young children and then older adults and the elderly. It was when I saw some of the elderly beings; they seemed to hobble along and then in a swirling of darkness. The elderly beings were suddenly young again, and they continued whatever it was they were doing. I continued further into the castle and then I came to the throne room, and I saw on a great throne a kingly being. He was elderly and had a vast white beard, and as he became aware of me, I saw him becoming younger. Then it was a young man sitting on the great throne. I felt his attention, and he told me who he was the archon of time. I became aware I was not supposed to be in this place and suddenly found myself back in my world. I was still not sure how I had come to that place.