Interesting concept, I feel like the combination of clock + children is slightly clumsy, but have warmed up to it by the end of the story. Good use of visual mechanics, now we need to know what the clockren do, what happened to them, and where the story goes from there!

I’m intrigued, and curious: why these clockwork children, and why did they stop running? Perhaps a bit of sequelage is in order?

Intriguing!