The Last Tick

Prompt:  Inside a candlelit steampunk workshop, an old clockmaker in a layered, gear-adorned steampunk coat adjusts the gears of a massive golden time device. He wears a brass-rimmed steampunk monocle and tinted goggles resting on his forehead. Sparks fly. He turns toward his young apprentice — a girl dressed in a corseted steampunk outfit with leather straps and brass buttons. The clockmaker says with urgency: “Time is breaking apart — you must go now!” The apprentice looks up, wide-eyed. The air hums with ticking, clanking metal and distant thunder. The camera circles slowly around them. The scene glows with brass, warm shadows, and a soft mechanical score. Throughout the scene, the steady ticking of a clock echoes gently in the background.