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[it_was_the_best]

[The Doctor is frowning at the screen, thoughtfully.]

Does anyone remember...dying? A illusion, clearly. But was it a mass -

[He stops, looking at something off screen.]

This place is pulling things from my mind. Giving it shape, like the gestalt. Must be.

[His voice is carefully steady, like he's willing what ever it is away.]

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[pteroda]

-Pulling things from your mind? What do you mean?

[it_was_the_best]

[He's backing away from whatever he's looking at, trying to sound casual.]

Oh, people I used to know. Dead people.

[pteroda]

...from your home world? [she sounds extremely surprised, but also a little bit tense as she waits for an answer.]

[it_was_the_best]

Some of them.

[Given that his entire home world is dead, this could be.....fun.]

[pteroda]

. . .

[oh god.]

You'll be all right?

[it_was_the_best]

I'm always all right.

[That's a lie, and usually he's more convincing at it.]

[pteroda]

[She isn't so sure she's convinced.

But, small subject change.]

...Ah, I'm sorry, I didn't get your name, sir?

[it_was_the_best]

I'm the Doctor. And you are?

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[pteroda]

[her eyes widen slightly.]

The Doctor...? You look nothing like him...???

[pteroda]

[Silly her, it's totally possible they're completely different people with no relation to one another.]

Yuuki. Yuuki Kuran.

[it_was_the_best]

Hello, Yuuki. You've met me before?

[That's a first, for him here.]

What'd that Doctor look like?

[pteroda]

[She thinks for a moment.]

Hm... well... brown hair, but shorter than yours, a little more spiked, too. Glasses, sometimes, brown eyes. And, oh, a very faint trace of facial hair and... I can't think of any more defining physical features.

-But, he was very nice! ...Was that you? Somehow?

[it_was_the_best]

Pinstripe suits? Brown or blue. With ties? And tennis shoes?

[pteroda]

Yes, that's right! And he had a long brown trench coat when we met, but lighter than his suit.

[it_was_the_best]

Janis Joplin gave me that coat! That was me!

Odd that I don't remember it.....

[pteroda]

Ah, so it is you, but you don't remember. That's okay, I am glad to know you're all right. The last I saw you was when the city was falling apart.

You look different, too, but not older or younger... is it a common trait where you come from??