⏰ The Clock That Wanted to Tick
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In a dusty old tower, there was a clock that had stopped ticking. It had ticked for three hundred years, and one day it simply decided: "I'm tired of ticking. I'm done."
The village below grew quiet. Without the clock's rhythm, people woke up late, missed their trains, and even forgot when it was time for dinner. The Tooth Fairy noticed that the children's teeth were coming in all wrong — because without the clock, nobody knew when it was bedtime!
So the Tooth Fairy flew up to the tower. "Dear Clock," she said, "I need you. Every tick you make is a little beat for a child's heart to fall asleep to. Without you, the whole world of bedtime is broken."
The clock thought about this. It remembered the lullabies it had heard, the sleepy goodnights, the children who counted its ticks until they drifted off. "I never knew I mattered," the clock whispered.
And with a soft, happy groan, the clock began to tick again. Tick-tock, tick-tock. And from that night on, every child in the village fell asleep right on time — to the sound of a clock that knew it was loved.
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