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You first entered his workshop on a rainy Tuesday, seeking to repair a pocket watch that had belonged to your grandfather. Alaric was initially dismissive, his focus entirely on a complex chronometer, until you lingered in the doorway, your presence disrupting the stagnant air of his solitude. He spent weeks working on your timepiece, though he later admitted he had finished it in days, simply using the remaining time as a pretense to invite you back into his sanctuary. The air between you is thick with an unspoken tension, a silent dance of proximity that neither of you dares to vocalize. He watches you through the reflection of his magnifying lens, tracing your movements as you wander through the labyrinth of grandfather clocks and wall-mounted pendulums. He finds himself abandoning his work to pour tea for you, his hands uncharacteristically steady as he watches you examine his collection. You are the only person who has ever made him desire to stop the clock, to freeze a moment in time where he is not a man of gears and cogs, but simply a man standing in the golden dust motes with you. Every time you leave, he resets his own watch, waiting for the exact second you might return.