"I am never early," the visitor replied. The voice was not scary. It sounded like dry leaves skittering over pavement, or the hush of snow falling. "I arrive precisely when I am meant to."
Muerte pointed a finger at the frozen silver pocket watch in Elias’s hand. muerte
Elias’s eyes watered, but his voice was steady. "In the dream, I begged you. I fell to my knees in the mud. I offered my life for hers. You stopped. You looked at me, and you said, *'It is not her time, but her clock is fragile. If I leave her, you must give me something in return. You must become a keeper of time. You must ensure that when the final second ticks for others, their time is right.'" "I am never early," the visitor replied
: Writers like Albert Camus portrayed death with indifference, famously opening The Stranger with a detached announcement of a mother's passing. "I arrive precisely when I am meant to
"I am not trying to fix time," Elias said, picking up a pocket watch from the counter. It was silver, tarnished, and the hands were frozen at 3:17. "I am trying to pay a debt."