The Pathless on Paths---------Chapter VIII(12)

“It means,” Karrson said, “that perhaps, in some areas an eternity has passed, while here only a week has gone by. What the pattern may be, if there is any at all, I do not know.”
“The distance...no, the strength of the Distortion Radiation, I think.” Hunter said. “We were near Ground Zero, and our time seemed to pass more slowly there.”
“True, but I would only put it as that stronger the radiation, the more effected time becomes. In other places, it may even work the opposite way.”
“Damn,” Hunter said.