"My job," he said doggedly. "You said you'd tell me what I am supposed to do and how to do it."

She sighed with mock resignation. "Yes, you always were somewhat single-minded about that, and on
the whole I believe you have done a decent job. Very well, I will start you off. You work most closely
with me anyway." She paused as if organizing her thoughts. "It is the business of Chronos to establish
the chronology of every event in the human section of the universe. Effect must always follow cause,
age must follow youth, action must usually follow thought. Evidently your backward existence
facilitates such timings. Without Time, all would be without form and void."