3.0 -portable-: Time Stopper

I have one request. Use it once. Just once. Then destroy it.

Mira entered. The bell above the door didn't ring.

The world didn't change.

Mira laughed. It was a small, frightened sound.

Then light began to behave strangely. The streetlamps outside didn't go dark, but the beams they cast became solid, frozen columns of amber. A moth hung in mid-flight, its wings arrested between one beat and the next. Dust motes became constellations, suspended like stars that had forgotten how to fall. Time Stopper 3.0 -Portable-

Somewhere in the frozen seconds between one heartbeat and the next, a woman with godlike power walks through a world that cannot see her. She is looking for the person who sent her the gift. She is looking for the person who improved her work.

She wants to ask them one question:

She will press the button again.

But this? Portable meant someone had miniaturized her life's work. Someone had improved it. Someone had sent it to her as a gift—or a threat. I have one request