26 days passed much faster than Sam ever expected them to.
Despite that, he could still feel the flow of time clearly, each moment blending into the next while never fully disappearing from his awareness.
There were moments when he genuinely wanted to stop, moments where he considered pausing just to clear his thoughts, but in the end he never truly allowed himself to slow down.
He simply kept going.
The fact that he could not feel hunger or fatigue inside of the [Dimension of Time] helped more than he initially thought it would.
Without his body demanding rest or food, there was nothing forcing him to stop unless he chose to.
That alone allowed him to push forward relentlessly, training far longer than he ever could have outside of this place.
Above him, in the pale sky of the dimension, a timer was constantly visible.
It hovered there silently, counting the passage of time in the real world rather than within the dimension itself.
Sam relied on it heavily.
