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[timey_wimey]

Is this really how time works for normal people? You know... everything going by slowly, in the right order, with big long periods of nothing?

How on earth do any of you cope?

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[areyoulovers]

Have you finished the jobs that Papa gave you already?

[timey_wimey]

About... oo, maybe an hour ago?

[areyoulovers]

But some of those were design issues he's been working on for weeks! And two of the schematics should have been physically impossible to design without violating at least two laws of physics!

[timey_wimey]

Oh come on, violating laws of physics? I was doing that before I could ride a bike!

... Which admittedly isn't saying much in human terms because I didn't learn how to ride a bike until after I was about a century old or so, but that's still a kid by Time Lord standards, so the point still stands.

[areyoulovers]

Papa thought giving you something impossible to solve would keep you out of the engineering bay...

translation: he's there right now.

[timey_wimey]

Engineering bay? Who said anything about the engineering bay?

[areyoulovers]

Papa did! He gave me the very important task of stopping you from touching anything, Mr. Doctor!

[timey_wimey]

I'm not touching anything.

[areyoulovers]

What specifically aren't you touching, Mr. Doctor?

[timey_wimey]

... everything?

[areyoulovers]

The last time you didn't touch anything, you set off alarms Papa didn't know we had and designed a power linkage that we estimate should still take thirty years of development to come up with ourselves! I think it's very confusing for him, not knowing whether to employ you or use Mr. Seiei's duct tape on you!

[timey_wimey]

I can't help it if you've got alarms that go off for something as silly as using one of the things you keep down there as a seat!

[areyoulovers]

Mr. Doctor, was the seat inside something that could be called a cockpit?

[timey_wimey]

Well. I suppose it might have been, in the loosest sense of the word, if you want to look at it that way.

Does something still count as a cockpit if you're just planning on using it as a seat?

[areyoulovers]

The cockpits have biometric signatures built in, Mr. Doctor! Anyone but a designated pilot entering alerts the whole colony!

Um, which is to keep untrained pilots from piloting the transport shuttle, of course! So if you want to play in the transport shuttles, please let someone know first!

[timey_wimey]

Oh. Right. Figures they'd be isomorphic somehow... sorry, my mistake.