Today's #flashfiction #TheClockMakerWizard

“Mary had a little lamb, her fleece as white as snow.”

Hannibal Lecter* #quote

          Today at the card game I actually played the Pokemon card game against a person using a deck from a different game called Magic the Gathering(Think of two playing Chess and Checkers together, one using one kind of pieces the other using another). Along the way we were making up rules how to the combine the games(another person also was working on with us on this experiment). It actually sorta worked though there are many kinks to work out. Collectible card games thrive on having many, many different cards with different capabilities(that's how they keep making money is new cards) so that's how things get complicated. But much fun was had making something never intended to exist. Anyway onto the flash fiction!

The Clockmaker Wizard

          Tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock. The wizard heard the noise so often he drowned it out. The thousands of tick-tocks coming from the millions if not billions of clocks all around him. Though when he chose not to drown it out he could find melodies among the clocks, voices, heartbeats, words, or any other noise. So many clocks surrounded him that if he controlled his focus he could combine the ticks, the tocks of the world of clocks around him. His world consisted of these clocks, parts that would materialize for him to make more, and food that would also appear.

         The wizard's purpose in the world of ticks and tocks was twofold, one to make the clocks. As these clocks ran the magic imbued in them would spread whatever spell the wizard placed in their design would weave through time and become available to wizards through the many realities. The wizard did not do this labor willing. His second purpose in the world of clocks was to live out a sentence of many millennium for sins against people of many worlds. The magical skill he abused to be placed in the prison would be used as the work in his sentence. Ever moment reminded him of the incredible power he conquered worlds with and how now he used it to toil away as a clock smith of spells.