Ellie was seated in the dining room, in front of her a plate piled high with vegetables and steak. Both things she'd seriously missed in the past year. Despite everything, she rather enjoyed eating her fill. Again, something she hadn't much of a chance to do since the invasion
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Thus, juggling a rather hefty slab of chocolate cake and a glass of milk, the Doctor looked for a place to sit. Actually, since the enormous banquet hall was mostly empty, he was looking for someone to sit with.
"Hello there?" he said cheerily to the young lady at the table. "Just in for a snack and I do hate to sit alone. May I join you?"
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Ignoring the cake for a moment, he casually rested his arms on the tabletop, body relaxed, both palms turned slightly upward. I am unarmed, I am not a threat. "I'm called the Doctor," he said cheerfully. "What's your name?"
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As she relaxed, the Doctor reclaimed his cake, forcing himself to eat slowly out of deference to Ellie's precarious nerves rather than his digestion. "I'm afraid that I haven't seen you around the Hotel before. Of course, I don't get out very much, usually hemmed in with research and experiments. Have you been here for very long?"
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"Couple of days." She speared a piece of steak with her fork, eyes following it as she raised the piece of food to eye level. "Experiments? Thought you said you were a Doctor, not a scientist." She didn't mean to sound rude but then, she didn't mean to do a lot of things.
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His eyes briefly closed in memory before snapping open again. "But you said it had been a long time since the start of the war... the treaty was signed in early 1996, peace was made. That means that you can't have much further to go, Ellie. By the time we leave this Hotel, the war may even be over!"
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He gave her hand a final, comforting squeeze and released it, sitting back. "Take it from me. I am, after all, something of an authority on changes through time."
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