The Silent Second For ten years, Eclipsa flourished under the rhythm of Liora’s sacrifice. Every clock in the city still paused for a single heartbeat on the Day of the Stop, a fleeting silence in honor

In the quiet town of Eldermere, there was a clockmaker named Elias Voss, known for crafting timepieces so precise they seemed to defy the laws of nature. His shop, a dimly lit nest of gears and pendulums,