: If you're creating a story or character sketches, consider their backgrounds, personalities, and how they interact. For example, are Bunny Brownie and Sarah Heizel friends, adversaries, or something more?

A figure congealed from the frost — not quite human, its edges scalloped like ice on a riverbank. It had no face where a face should be, only a hollow clock face that showed 10:04. It smelled faintly of ozone and long-closed attics. Its voice was a chorus of stopped watches.