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The watch spoke. Not in words, but in memory .

He almost tossed it. But his broken watch, the one his father had given him, flickered to life for a single second. The hands spun backward.

He kept the gear.

Or he could do what the seventh forgemaster had intended: wear it. Let it anchor him to the now . Use it not to change the past or see the future, but to make the right choice in the single second that mattered.

He had only one spark. One true choice.

The junkyard was quiet, save for the drip of condensation off rusted girders. Leo, a scavenger with quick fingers and a broken watch, hated the quiet. It meant the other scavengers had already picked the place clean.