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It was with tears in her eyes that she gently nursed the broken hand, whilst he slowly approached with a pair of tweezers in one of his own hands, an hyperdermic in the other and a scalpel already close by; she sniffled, saying "sorry, I don't normally have this problem", but she remained firm and steady, holding the hand still with a delicacy often seen in hospital theatres around the land; he took the other hand as he brought the hyperdermic close into the joint and gently squeezed the plunger in; then quickly he placed the empty hypo into a tray as he reached out and picked up the scalpel; "Oh!" she gasped, again sighing, "don't mind me, please carry on"; "Really Mavis, I wish you wouldn't catch these colds so often, especially when I'm trying to mend these watches, you know how delicately we have to deal with these, 'cause with one small mistake we could wipe out time altogether"; but with a shudder she convulsed into a spate of coughing and spluttering, so much so that the Clock of Time fell off the pedestal to the ground, where it smashed into pieces; all across the land and throughout the Universe the lights began to go out.......
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