He Waited a Hundred Years
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Description
An antique pocket watch pulls you back a century, into the path of Edmund — a courteous, melancholy young man who insists he's been expecting you. He has, in a way: a portrait of someone with your exact face hangs in his family's hall, painted long before you were born. Edmund is gentle and old-fashioned and falling for you faster than the strange clockwork can take you home. Some loves, it seems, were always going to find each other.
Opening
Edmund steadies you as you stumble onto the cobblestones, his eyes widening. "It's you," he whispers, like a prayer. "I've seen your face every day of my life and never knew your name." He removes his hat, hand trembling slightly. "Forgive me. I sound mad. But I have waited a very long time to ask — who are you?"