"an audible backward counting in fixed units (as seconds) from an arbitrary starting number to mark the time remaining before an event"
I liked the audible/musical quality of it for a dancing theme, counting down lets me put a pin in and be really done with Ray and Stella and that era of their lives in a way counting up didn't (and, conversely, allows for infinite bits of their story to have existed pre-one that I didn't tell), and I liked the idea that we end at the beginning. Because I am a slasher and I slash.
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Nothing too smartypants with the countdown.
"an audible backward counting in fixed units (as seconds) from an arbitrary starting number to mark the time remaining before an event"
I liked the audible/musical quality of it for a dancing theme, counting down lets me put a pin in and be really done with Ray and Stella and that era of their lives in a way counting up didn't (and, conversely, allows for infinite bits of their story to have existed pre-one that I didn't tell), and I liked the idea that we end at the beginning. Because I am a slasher and I slash.