His watch had stopped working. He had no way to tell what time it was. He had no way to tell if time still existed.

What if his watch wasn't broken, but malfunctioned due to time travel? What if the minutes he was staring at his watch was actually years he was wasting?

He handed his watch to a worker. "Nope, not time travel," she told him. "Just broken."

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