"I've had several, over the years. We both have, actually. Never stopped looking, and never will, but there are always children who need guidance, all over the world." Balthazar gives Horvath a grateful look, then hands him the chalk and backs up to give them both better access.

"Right. There's a difference between tapping into time and tapping into dimensions, although they're related fields. Playing with time is riskier in the sense that you can create a closed loop and annihilate yourself, but moving between dimensions creates the potential to get completely lost. I know of at least one sorcerer who did just that. Anything you can imagine exists somewhere, sometime. Also a number of things you can't imagine." He smiles wryly.