Sherlock looked down at the object Richard had handed to him.
It was the size of an egg with a metallic shell, its surface smooth and resembling an exquisite piece of art. There was a seam on the surface that seemed to suggest it could be opened.
With a "snap," Sherlock opened the object to find a glass watch face inside, beneath which three different lengths of hands were moving.
The shortest of the hands moved the slowest, almost imperceptibly.
The hand of mid-length could be seen moving slowly.
The longest, slender hand advanced in the blink of an eye.
"Tick-tock, tick-tock..."
The hands emitted a crisp and pleasant sound.
The thing Richard gave Sherlock was a pocket watch. In the current Medieval era, where precise timing had not yet fully proliferated, it was considered a novelty, and Richard thought Sherlock would definitely be interested in collecting it.
However, Sherlock's reaction was somewhat different from what Richard had imagined.
