Originally Posted by
MikeDeason
Unlike Captain Hook, the ticking likely denotes danger, but I have yet to discover the “crocodile”. A steady rhythmic ticking that discounts cadence and speed as mere flapdoodle for its incessant beat.
There is a Poe analogy here also but I am too weary to grasp it.
If you are actually looking for advice (and based on this and past threads, it doesn't seem like you are) then you should provide a whole bunch of information about the sound, when it occurs, etc.