[11] This is Gallifrey; Our Childhood, Our Home.

[coolbowtie]

[VOICE]

[A voice comes over the Mayfield network. It's rather fuzzy, as though it didn't orginate from the phone given to every Mayfield Citizen, but another signal getting picked up by the network.]I know you're looking for me. But I'm not going back to the Academy. I don't need a TARDIS. I'll travel the universe without one. Just try to

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[ergaleomancer]

[A little girl, appearing to be about seven, comes up to him. She has a clockwork flying cockroach riding on the top of her head, though it occasionally hops off to fly around in circles before landing on her head again.]

What are you doing?

[coolbowtie]

Figuring out how I got here from my home planet.

[He turns and grins at her clockwork cockroach]

[ergaleomancer]

...I think this is the Clockwork Town... [She seems very frightened by that, whatever it is.]

[coolbowtie]

What's that?

[ergaleomancer]

...You don't know?

[coolbowtie]

Nope. You don't make a lot of sense.

[ergaleomancer]

The Clockwork Town is where they send little boys and girls who don't behave. Haven't you talked to the people here? Either they're trapped too, or they're strange.

[coolbowtie]

...I'm not gonna be trapped. I'll get out of this.

[ergaleomancer]

....I'll help you. We'll work together? I'm just learning, but I'm an ergaleomancer...

[coolbowtie]

Ergaleomancer? What's that? I've never heard of anything called that before.

[ergaleomancer]

[She holds her hand out for the mechanical roach, and it lands on her. Then she offers it out to the boy.]

People that make machines like this. Or like the airships that people fly in.

Ergaleomancers can make -anything-.

[coolbowtie]

...[he takes the mechanical roach and examines it]

So basically scientists and engineers then.

[ergaleomancer]

It's more than that. We can make things -alive-. Or close to it, anyway.

[The roach wriggles and squirms, apparently not happy about being held by someone other than Theta.]

And papa says that a good ergaleomancer can bend the laws of reality.