A Little Ticking Heart

A crisp tick-tick-tick caught my ears in the quiet dark! I hopped right across the smooth tabletop to hunt it down. Sitting right beside a heavy stack of notebooks was a little brass clock. Its tiny silver hand skipped forward with every beat—tick, tick! I leaned in and pressed my front paws right against the cool glass face. A tiny shudder buzzed straight into my paws every single time it jumped. It keeps a steady rhythm all by itself!