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Submitted to Contest #337
Time does not forgive those who try to outrun it. The Third Button The watch did not tick.Elizabeth noticed that first, though it would take her years—years she would later unspool and examine frame by frame—to understand why the absence of that small, ordinary sound unsettled her so deeply. In a world built on movement, on progress measured in seconds and heartbeats, a thing that refused to mark time felt like a quiet defiance. Or a warning.She found the watch in a pawnshop that should not have existed.The street itself was familiar enough...
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