"That’s Hodge," whispered Tethys. "He’s building a clock that doesn’t keep time. It keeps moments ."
Hodge looked up. "You heard my boop," he said. It wasn’t a question.
"Then you understand," said Hodge. "A broken sound is just a sound that hasn’t found its song yet." quack preep
Pip nodded— preep .
He opened his beak to greet the dawn, and instead of a crisp "Quack," a strange sound stumbled out: "Quack preep." "That’s Hodge," whispered Tethys
"A thought?" Pip asked— preep .
But one morning, Pip woke up feeling odd . and instead of a crisp "Quack
"I don’t know," Pip said, but it came out: "I don’t know—preep."