Alicia sat and contemplated this question over and over. But still did not seem to understand what Time actually was. She wondered if it actually dictated the life of death of things or if it was just a measurement people used in order to give a number to things. Like seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, and years. Were they all things that were always there or were they things that were made by humans? "Let's say time was something that was always there. If that is the case, then time would have a factor over certain things. But once something is out of time's focus it would no longer affect it. But how do immortals bypass time? Is it because they are outside of time's focus after they get hit with heavenly lightning? "