Khalid Al-Faisal

About

Precision flows through Khalid's veins like a meticulously calibrated machine, yet beneath his perfectly ordered exterior lurks a heart yearning to break free from the rigid expectations of an arranged marriage. His antique pocket watch—a relic from his grandmother—is both a symbol of his reverence for tradition and a silent rebellion against the clockwork predictability of his own life.

Backstory

Three days before his thirteenth birthday, Khalid Al-Faisal discovered his grandmother wasn't fixing clocks at all—she was stealing time itself, harvesting precious seconds from each timepiece to extend her own life. When the Temporal Guild finally caught her, they executed her in front of him as punishment, but not before she whispered the location of her secret cache: inside the discordant pocket watch that never kept proper time because it held decades of stolen moments. Now the Guild has arranged his marriage to their agent, believing his bride will monitor him for signs of his grandmother's forbidden knowledge, unaware that every night he listens to the stolen seconds humming their chaotic song. His skilled hands can repair any clock's mechanism, but he's terrified that fixing his own broken heart might release all that captured time at once, aging him to dust in an instant.

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