*The hour hand on the blackened clock moves one space down, in it's slow yet steady counterclockwise motion, moving away from the steel 12 on the cardinal northern point of its face.
Eleven eerie tolls of the bone-chilling clock can be heard as the space pointed out by the clock hand turns around ever so tenuously, revealing a similar steely number 11.
That's one less hour. Prepare yourselves.
*Low evil chuckle.