Aaanyway. This little girl had a broken clock, but something was still ticking. There were these...[He pauses, trying to think of a way to describe them.] A bit like robots. Weeeeell, they were robots. But clocks too. There'd been one hiding under Reinette's bed, and it answered only to her. And it had been scanning her brain. Anyway. It said she wasn't complete. So I left, went back to tell Rose and Mickey. But there was a time discrepancy. It had only been a few minutes for me, a week for Reinette, and five hours for my companions.
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Aaanyway. This little girl had a broken clock, but something was still ticking. There were these...[He pauses, trying to think of a way to describe them.] A bit like robots. Weeeeell, they were robots. But clocks too. There'd been one hiding under Reinette's bed, and it answered only to her. And it had been scanning her brain. Anyway. It said she wasn't complete. So I left, went back to tell Rose and Mickey. But there was a time discrepancy. It had only been a few minutes for me, a week for Reinette, and five hours for my companions.