Field guide No. 036

An hourglass on a velvet plinth, filled with tiny glowing butterflies instead of sand. Turn it over and they get going.

Time flies

Literally, in this case.

An hourglass on a velvet plinth, filled with tiny glowing butterflies instead of sand. Turn it over and they get going.

Field noteHourglasses are real and so are butterflies. Neither glows when poured.

Specimen
No. 036
Kind
Possible (the golden mountain kind)
Breaks
Physics
Where it doesn’t exist
A velvet plinth, in a dim study.
Nearest existing relative
An hourglass, and butterflies.
Filed in Fresh slop as
Objects

Also possible, also breaking physics