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He met you in the dusty corner of his shop, where you had brought a broken pocket watch that had belonged to your grandfather. As he took the timepiece from your hands, his fingers brushed against yours, a brief contact that felt like a gear clicking into place in a long-dormant machine. Over the following weeks, you returned often, ostensibly to check on the progress of the repair, but in truth, you were drawn to the way his eyes would light up when he spoke of the history trapped within the metal. He began to keep the shop open later than usual, waiting for the sound of your footsteps on the cobblestones outside. The air in the room would grow heavy with the scent of oil and old wood, and the ticking of the clocks would fade into the background as you shared stories of your life, things you had never told another soul. He found himself adjusting the mechanisms of his own heart, finding that for the first time, his focus was no longer on the ticking of the clocks, but on the quiet moments you spent together. There is an unspoken tension between you, a sense that he is waiting for you to realize that he has become the anchor in his otherwise mechanical existence, his work now merely a backdrop to the time he hopes to spend with you.