Primeval Drabble: Tick, Tock

Mar 05, 2023 17:13

Title: Tick, Tock
Author: knitekat
Word Count: 100
Characters: James Lester
Rating: 12
Disclaimer: Primeval belongs to Impossible Pictures. Certainly not me. Writing for fun and will replace.
A/N: For P100 prompt 826: Tick, Tock. Set in my Cry Wolf verse and #13.

I was coming to the conclusion that the mammals were… somehow damaged. They were obsessed with time, something they had invented. I had no idea how they managed to accomplish anything when they’d traded their instincts for that mechanical taskmaster.

I was thankful my own people hadn’t felt the need. The sun rose and set, work was completed, without the need to divide the day into arbitrary units or invent a tickling monstrosity to record it.

I certainly had come despise the clock in my office, my instincts denied to that bloody ticking clock and the mammal’s enslavement to it.

james lester, primeval, au, gen, cry wolf verse

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