Q equals age.

Welcome. Mind the step.

Oh, you've brought the weather in with you.

Come warm your hands. You're just in time.

For a little more time than the law allows.

This is lot number 103. We call it the 13 hour clock. Keep your fingers off the hand,

please. It does keep its own counsel. It arrived to us in a plain parcel from a catalog house,

the sort that sells flat-packed dreams and Little Allen Keys.

Arkinzina said it never kept less than time, only more.

Before we begin, I want to point out some of the customers whose names have been etched in

brass on this beautiful plaque I had made above the

front desk. These are some of the members of the inner circle of the antiquarium. We go by

the Obsidian Covenant. Recent initiates include Carrie, Jesse Ballesteros, Alison Hamby Hirschman, Galen, Amy Jameson, Foxluck, Angela Johnson, and Chase White.

We are ever appreciative of your devotion to the order.

Go to the Obsidian Covenant.com to receive the sacrament.

Sounds harmless enough, right?

Welcome to the antiquarium of sinister happenings and odd goings on.

...you know. The I own a magic clock that gives me two extra hours per day.

When I first opened the package, I felt bamboozled.

I found something completely unlike the product I'd seen in the IKEA store.

A clock with the number 13 unwillingly wedged between 12 and 1.

However, as I would soon learn, it was exactly as intended.

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