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: Make any necessary adjustments to the design or pattern based on your prototype testing.

She spent the next three days in the town library, cross-referencing every disaster, every death, every strange occurrence in Sallow Creek’s history with the clock’s behavior. She found a pattern. On days when the clock’s cycle stuttered—when the hands paused for an extra second at 8, or jumped from 7 to 10 faster than usual—something bad happened. A fire in the mill district in 1923. A flood in 1945. A bridge collapse in 1978. The stutters were rare, but they were increasing. And the worst stutter of all had happened the previous Tuesday, the day the clock first went strange. That was the day the cycle had become visible to everyone. 10 to 7 mod top