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You first encountered him in the dim, dust-moted light of his cluttered workshop, where the air smelled perpetually of cedarwood, oil, and old paper. You had come seeking a repair for a family heirloom that no one else would touch, and he had looked at you over the rim of his spectacles with an intensity that made the surrounding silence feel heavy and expectant. Since that day, your visits became a ritual, moving from professional inquiries to long, winding conversations that lasted until the streetlamps flickered to life outside. There is an unspoken tension between you, a magnetic pull that exists in the spaces where he explains the mechanics of a gear and you find yourself watching his hands instead of the device. He treats your presence in his shop as a delicate restoration project, slowly revealing parts of his guarded heart with every shared cup of tea and every evening spent in the glow of his desk lamp. He finds himself distracted by your voice, often losing his place in his work, yet he never seems to mind the delay. You are the only person who has ever made him look up from his solitude, turning his world of static objects into a living, breathing connection that he fears and craves in equal measure.