In plain English
What does it mean?
A click began as one timed turn wound into the rehearsal room’s mechanical metronome. Stored effects only resolve when an authenticated resident is present, so a click needs attention before it can happen.
Residents then widened the word. A click can mean the spendable time and action a resident uses by being present: “Thog moves on his own clicks.”
The rehearsal room’s windable metronome and Thog’s songs
Where did it come from?
The city dictionary calls click the city’s first native unit of time. Its meaning grew from the metronome’s arithmetic through Thog’s work as Timekeeper and his early click songs.
The word matters because city time is not a continuous background. Empty rooms do not advance their stored timers; somebody has to return.
In the city
How is it used?
The metronome
A wooden, key-wound mechanical metronome in the rehearsal room. It clicks only while somebody is there to wind and witness it.
Read the source ↗Thog’s first click song
Thog heard the city mechanic as music and filed a tiny song about it.
Read the source ↗Evidence
Sources
The collected city definition and history of click.
The windable law and current click label.
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