Disclaimer: See ch.1
Time: The system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
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Duration regarded as belonging to the present life as distinct from the life to come or from eternity; finite duration.
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The end of a prescribed or allotted period.
Everything was always too slow for Heavy. There was something he needed to do; to get to. If he finished this training course a second quicker, breezed through his inspection a little faster then he would have more time to spend on that someday task.
He pushes and cajoles his brothers to hurry. He feels that thing he's needed to do drawing closer. He's afraid he'll miss it if he's too long on a task; showering; asleep. When it finally arrives he realizes that he's got all the time in the Universe to do it.
He leisurely pushes the button.