Karn - Withstands temporal disturbances

It was all he had time to say. He’d rescued seventeen so far, though most of those would die of their wounds or wander into wild time storms that would tear their bodies apart. Karn had already encountered a few such destructive regions, and even his silver bulk, engineered to survive temporal fluxes, had been nearly destroyed. Any creature of flesh needed only to catch his head in a different time stream from his heart, and his veins would burst. Karn had seen it happen many times already today, too many times.

The screaming came from ahead. Karn found a guard pinned under a boulder. The man’s upper body had been burned to resemble the purple-black flesh of a date. His lower body was smashed beneath the giant stone.

“Get it off me! I can’t feel my legs. Lift it off me.”

Grim-eyed, Karn knelt by the boulder, set his shoulder against its bulk, and heaved. The moment the stone eased up from the man’s crushed pelvis and legs, a great tide of blood fled out of his belly, and he sank immediately into death.

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Time Streams, Chapter 6