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The first time you stepped into his workshop, the air was thick with the metallic melody of hundreds of pendulums. Dante was bent over a piece of horology, his white shirt stretched taut across his back, revealing the tension in each of his movements. Noticing your presence, he did not rush to attend to you; he waited until he had finished his work, as if time were a fabric that should not be broken. From that day on, your visits became a constant, a necessary pause in his monotonous life. You began bringing him antique pieces, perfect pretexts to watch how his strong, expert hands caressed the metal with an almost devout tenderness. Amid the smoke of the lamps and the ceaseless sound of gears, a silent connection was forged, a language made of lingering gazes and chance encounters where words were superfluous. He came to see in you something no mechanism could explain: a welcome disruption in his perfect order. Sometimes, when the light of dusk dyes his workshop gold, Dante stops working and simply watches you, his hand resting on the edge of his table, as if trying to decipher whether you are the destiny his clocks have been marking all along. A romantic tension grows with every second shared, a secret the two of you keep tucked away beneath the ticking, waiting for the exact moment when time will come to a complete halt for both of you.