Leo: (stammering) We wound- I-I-I wound the clock. It was... It was... We wound it. I sat in the circle. It-it-it ticked and ticked... And we waited... It was going to be a game. It was a game. It was just a stupid, stupid game, and... the lights went out... And then... And then- Do you hear that? It (stammers) It's so hard to think with...
Liam: Do you hear them screaming, Leo?
Leo: It-it ticked.
Liam: Those teenagers.
Leo: It ticked, and ticked, and ticked, and ticked... There was something in the dark, and I was so, so, so scared... [...] There were eyes. There were eyes. And each... With each tick they got closer, and they found the others, and they chased the others, and it wasn't the tick, tick, tick tick tick tick tick! It just, it wouldn't, it wouldn't- It would just find... Time just bent, and I was so- I was so scared. And I woke up, and the world was... different. I woke up, and I don't know what I— They were dead. I don't know why I'm not dead. I don't know why I'm not dead. It's just- It's still in, it's still... I... Please make it stop! Can you just please make it stop?!
Liam: Do you hear them screaming, Leo?
Leo: It-it ticked.
Liam: Those teenagers.
Leo: It ticked, and ticked, and ticked, and ticked... There was something in the dark, and I was so, so, so scared... [...] There were eyes. There were eyes. And each... With each tick they got closer, and they found the others, and they chased the others, and it wasn't the tick, tick, tick tick tick tick tick! It just, it wouldn't, it wouldn't- It would just find... Time just bent, and I was so- I was so scared. And I woke up, and the world was... different. I woke up, and I don't know what I— They were dead. I don't know why I'm not dead. I don't know why I'm not dead. It's just- It's still in, it's still... I... Please make it stop! Can you just please make it stop?!
— Candela Obscura "The Circle of the Crimson Mirror"
