Chapter 1 - A world without time crystals

The month was December, Timeland was filled with snow. The snow reached till the people's knees. All the people were in the Christmas moods. Serefina was approaching at the Tik Tok soup shop.

"Hey grandma!" she said keeping her snow covered umbrella in the umbrella stand close to the door.

"Serefi darling, You are late!" her grandma complained serving the special Tik Tok soup to a red beard man. "What were you doing at the house this long?"

"Grandma, this was because fluffy teared my shoes! And I had to buy new ones."

A white dog boosted out from Serefina's gigantic bag of spices.

"Fluffy, come back here!" Serefina shouted throwing her bag in wood looking glass floor. She ran after Fluffy into the big doors labelled:

Only staff allowed

The kitchen was filled with chefs cooking different soups. The kitchen smelled like fresh spices.

Fluffy ran on the shelves throwing utensils on the teal coloured glass floor . It was not new for Serefina for running after a dog-who-throws-stuff-everywhere as fluffy threw Serefina's things from her shelves all around the house. Of course her grandma didn't like Fluffy. But she had to keep him, being mesmerized by Serefina every time.

Grandma Hannah's name was more famous than her Tik Tok soup shop in Timeland. Grandma Hannah was the one keeping the time crystals safe and sound. Grandma Hannah's mother's mother, great-great grandma Betty, at a very young age activated the time crystals. There are total four time crystals playing different roles. After the activation, only her blood could activate them. People came to see their future to great-great grandma Betty's house. No one could imagine a world without time crystals before Serefina's mom, Diana, tried to change the future and was never seen again. From then, no one is allowed to see future in the time crystals except grandma Hannah.

Sometimes Grandma Hannah looked depressed after loosing her daughter. But she always said 'We should move forward'. A fifteen year old Serefina never felt sad because she never missed her mom much.

"Gotcha!" Serefina picked up Fluffy in her arms.

"Now are you going to spend all your time in the kitchen?" Grandma Hannah called from the counter taking cash from a woman drinking Clicky coffee.

Even though Grandma Hannah was a little grumpy but she adored Serefina.