Tragedy rarely knocks; it simply seeps in. Clara began to forget the "hum." Then she began to forget the way to the shop. The diagnosis was a rare, aggressive neurological decay—a literal "short circuit" of her memory and motor functions.
Elias watched the woman who navigated the frequencies of the world lose her own signal. He tried to "fix" her like his clocks, researching every specialist, but biological gears don't respond to oil or alignment.