Claudia has fallen into a routine here in her month and change in the Clock and her days almost always start out at Lux Et Nox. Coffee shops are a godsend in any universe and she scoped this one out pretty early on. She comes by most mornings for a cup (she prefers the Lux side, though she has checked out both entrances to the place) and settles in one of the chairs for some reading to pass the time. She finds herself trying to do that a lot, pass the time without much of anything to do-- except that anything she could want to do is probably more or less at her fingertips or just an open door away. It's different, though, without her job, without the Warehouse and all the crazy things she's gotten used to, called her new normal, so it feels a lot like she's wasting time.

It's here, nestled in a too-comfy chair in the corner of the shop, that she notices a distinct and obvious ticking sound. She ignores it initially, it's quiet enough it's not really much of a disturbance, but eventually it seems to get louder. Almost like when a child yells to get a person's attention because talking wasn't doing the job. She lets out a huff and closes her book, shoving it in her messenger bag, the ticking too distracting to focus.

Over the course of the next several days, the sound goes from a minor annoyance to impossible to ignore, and it seems to have gotten louder, too. The next day, she can be found in the library trying to find information on auditory hallucinations (just in case it's not the damn clock pulling strings and messing with her) and throughout the week, she can be found in various places, like the arcade for a distraction that might be noisier than the noise in her head, the bar to drink the sounds away, or even roaming the hallways in an attempt to get away from it all.