It has been one year, and as promised, N'bayé was allowed to study the gauntlet from a close distance with Ozia.
This arrangement wasn't the best, but it was what they could settle for.
Ozia had expected that he would have to constantly watch his mother invade his personal space in her pursuit of knowledge but that wasn't the case.
N'bayé knew that one year wasn't enough so she had met Memphis to help her out.
Now, because of the specific details of Kael's order, she couldn't ask Ozia to enter a time bubble with her so that she could have more time to study the gauntlet.
But she could alter her own time.
N'bayé, with Memphis help, was enveloped in a time membrane, a more personalized version of a time bubble.
This allowed Memphis to operate at a speed much higher than reality. The reason Ozia couldn't see her much was that she came and went very fast, and she was also quiet.
