Making Connections
"OF COUSRE." I yelled as Donna retold her story to me, this morning over breakfast. Then I paused, "I mean, what?"
It was all too confusing, Ood can't 'fade in' nor can they 'teleport' not without some sort of technological device and they certainly shouldn't be that far advanced. Even then they shouldn't 'fade' into reality, it would more a 'thump,' a 'bash,' a 'flail.'
"Could it have been a premonition?"
Donna stared at me blankly.
"A foreboding, a vision, a..."
"I know what a bloody premonition is you dumb bell. I'm not Mystic bloody Meg."
But a plan was forming in my mind.
"Are you sure he was there at all?"
"YES... No... Well how else could he have been there? It's not like I have 3D TV or anything...But then, things that are really there, don't tend to... fade away."
"EXACTLY!" I jumped up from seat and started to pace. "What if he wasn't there at all? What if he was never here? What if all we have seen of this Ood was a projection, like astral projection, only with some real telepathic umph behind it."
"Words are coming out of your mouth but they make no sense."
"Listen." I stood in front of her rocking chair, nose to nose as she rocked back and forth and drank her tea. "Ood are telepathic right? And when they are in their circle, their mind power can reach out across worlds. What if they were reaching out to use right now? What if, they had somehow learned how to breach the void with their mind. What if they are warning me about the Tardis and the Doctor from back in their world?"
"Then how are they surfing the net? Has AOL gone intergalactic?"
"Of course not. Not for a few more centuries. Reality is a difficult thing to breach. They wouldn't be able to hold the connection for very long. A flash in your bedroom, or at the shops. But Cyberspace, that's child's play."
"But why me? Why not you? They always seem to come after me..."
"They probably are trying to contact me, through my dreams. My own slight telepathic ability left over from my Time Lord DNA has caught some of their radio waves. But pinpointing one person from that distance would be terribly difficult. But you..."
I pulled her out of the chair and started dancing her around the room. She tried to fight me off, but the smile on her face gave away her hidden pleasure.
"You Donna Noble, are special. A convergence point, remember?"
"So?"
"So, you're the one who can help me send a message home."
That's when Rose came in, and I had to put Donna down and do some housework.
It was all too confusing, Ood can't 'fade in' nor can they 'teleport' not without some sort of technological device and they certainly shouldn't be that far advanced. Even then they shouldn't 'fade' into reality, it would more a 'thump,' a 'bash,' a 'flail.'
"Could it have been a premonition?"
Donna stared at me blankly.
"A foreboding, a vision, a..."
"I know what a bloody premonition is you dumb bell. I'm not Mystic bloody Meg."
But a plan was forming in my mind.
"Are you sure he was there at all?"
"YES... No... Well how else could he have been there? It's not like I have 3D TV or anything...But then, things that are really there, don't tend to... fade away."
"EXACTLY!" I jumped up from seat and started to pace. "What if he wasn't there at all? What if he was never here? What if all we have seen of this Ood was a projection, like astral projection, only with some real telepathic umph behind it."
"Words are coming out of your mouth but they make no sense."
"Listen." I stood in front of her rocking chair, nose to nose as she rocked back and forth and drank her tea. "Ood are telepathic right? And when they are in their circle, their mind power can reach out across worlds. What if they were reaching out to use right now? What if, they had somehow learned how to breach the void with their mind. What if they are warning me about the Tardis and the Doctor from back in their world?"
"Then how are they surfing the net? Has AOL gone intergalactic?"
"Of course not. Not for a few more centuries. Reality is a difficult thing to breach. They wouldn't be able to hold the connection for very long. A flash in your bedroom, or at the shops. But Cyberspace, that's child's play."
"But why me? Why not you? They always seem to come after me..."
"They probably are trying to contact me, through my dreams. My own slight telepathic ability left over from my Time Lord DNA has caught some of their radio waves. But pinpointing one person from that distance would be terribly difficult. But you..."
I pulled her out of the chair and started dancing her around the room. She tried to fight me off, but the smile on her face gave away her hidden pleasure.
"You Donna Noble, are special. A convergence point, remember?"
"So?"
"So, you're the one who can help me send a message home."
That's when Rose came in, and I had to put Donna down and do some housework.