time-travel-soldiers

The chapter introduces Greta Forzane, an Entertainer who nurses time-traveling Soldiers wounded in the Change War, a secret conflict fought across time to influence a distant future. The narrative focuses on the Place, a recuperation station outside normal space and time, where three newly arrived Soldiers—dressed as hussars and including Greta's commandant Erich—arrive amid tension and conflict, culminating in a violent confrontation that tests the fragile order of the Place. The chapter sets up the complex temporal warfare, the psychological toll on participants, and the interpersonal dynamics among the Entertainers and Soldiers.