Were the pair of objects mirror images of each other like a pair of gloves or a pair of shoes?
It sounds like the pair is some sort of food casing (natural or manufactured, pending a reply to Ana_Byrd). And a half-pair is useful in breaking the other pairs, or in extracting the food from the casings.
An idea: Maybe Chronos is cracking a walnut (or similar) by squeezing 2 walnuts together. One nutshell splits into 2 halves. He discards a half and puts the other half on the countertop, and then uses that dome to smash the rest of the nuts.
In which case the “objects” are walnut half-shells.
Pistachios!
And @Cheesesteak got it! I was eating pistachios, and saved half of the first shell to use as a tool with which to open all the rest (it really is a superb tool for that purpose). Once I’d eaten all of the nuts, I no longer had need of that first shell, so I threw it away.
Oh no, this one belongs to @Rhodes , I had no idea what was going on until they mentioned one half being useful for breaking open other pairs. I just picked the right nut.
I also need to work on my phrasing.
A man was walking along the seaside above the beach. He thought of something he wanted to commit to paper, so he sat down and began writing in his notebook. After some time went by, he was placed under arrest. Why?
Was he sitting in the road, “above the beach.”? Therefore blocking traffic. Not sure why they would arrest him, instead of just move him along, though…
Had he been on the beach, then walked away? Was it a nudist beach and so he was arrested for indecent exposure?
Nope.
Nope.
Had he committed a crime?
If yes: while the walking / sitting / writing was going on? At some point before? After?
If no: were there reasonable grounds for believing he had committed a crime because of what he wrote? Because of his actions?
Is the content of what he wrote relevant?
yeppers
So, arrested but had not committed a crime. Was this a case of mistaken identity?
Or did it appear that he had committed a crime?
Was the thing he wrote a creative work of some sort? (Song lyrics, fiction, etc.)
Was it something that could be interpreted, out of context, as a confession to a crime? As writing that was itself criminal, e.g. a threat?
Is the country where this happened relevant?
Is the historical era relevant?
Not bad questions, but hard to answer with just yes or no.
Let’s skip the year guessing and say:
1915
is the year this took place.
Was the suspected crime…
Fraud?
Plagiarism?
Theft?
Murder?
Sedition or treason?
Espionage?
Something else?
Was what he saw on the beach relevant?
Espionage.
What he saw was not relevant. Just a beach, water, maybe a sunset? Nothing relevant. Just a nice beach scene.
Is this a famous writer? Famous enough that we could reasonably be expected to know him?
Did the walkway above the beach look like this?
This person has a Wikipedia article, but I do not know who has heard of him and who has not. This is not a massively famous person who everyone immediately knows.
Nope.