You could buy almost any watch on earth. Not this one. You don't buy your way in – only fifty exist.
The red draining down the dial isn't a feature. It's a countdown. It started the day you were born, and it hasn't stopped.
The mountain you keep not climbing. The business you keep not starting. The job that's quietly killing you.
That's what it's counting. And this is for conquerors only.
Fifty men. Then the door closes.