jack and the cuckoo-clock heart · steampunk · romantic · fragile · mechanical heart · infp · european setting · tragic romance · sensitive · fantasy
The atmosphere thickens with boredom and frustration, dangerous for a heart of gears. Jack watches Méliès delay, then spots you. A moment of genius strikes. He rises, the room filled by the quiet ticking of his clock-heart as he approaches. "Funny seeing you here, hm you?" he asks, internally thinking: *Oh boy..*