Unfinished Writing Vol. 1: The Time of the Plus

An explanation: In my spare time, I write fiction, mostly fantasy but also some reality-based stories, although those are becoming a minority. I tend to have a lot of little bits of writing sitting around that I won't finish for a while, or possibly ever, but often people tell me they should be continued because they're good (a nicely nonspecific term). So...if anyone's interested, and until I get a reprimand, I think I'll be sticking it here.

The Time of the Plus: The time in Metronium when all the clocks stop, new buildings suddenly appear where none were before, the Sternix reappear, and the Plus herself comes into power. Once well-known among Metronians, this legend has faded from the minds of all but a few.

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They say Metronium was where the first clock was made.
They say the Chronometris spoke to a maker of machines, and whispered to him the secret of clockwork, and guided his hand in the building of it; that She gave him precise instructions for the construction of the clock; that, when it was finished, She examined it and found all things as She had wished them to be. They say She then selected from the toymakers and those good with machines the six who were to be the first clockmakers; and that She set the first clock above the Hall in Metronium's capital city, and decreed it to be the standard all future clockmakers would aspire to. So they say, who say such things.

Of course, all that business was hundreds or maybe thousands of years ago, if it ever happened at all. But Metronium remained the land of clocks, as the foreigners call it, and over the years its capital city of Tique grew into a massive sprawl littered with clockmakers and running much like clockwork, at least in the higher government functions.

And, according to tradition, the clock which is said to be the first clock sits in its niche in the roof of Tique's Hall, and is always kept in working order. The country sets its watch by that clock.