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[weeper_of_blood]

There's a booth occupied by an extremely tetchy mathematician who's left leg has a serious case of the jitters. It might have something to do with the inhaler he's been taking far too frequently, but luckily he's now onto cigarettes

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[chemist_rani]

Just by chance, another glare (this one just as permanent though somewhat more irritated) happens to meet with his glare.

[weeper_of_blood]

A glare like that deserves a lingering watch, and he does so, with brows furrowing to add a frown.

"Problem?"

[chemist_rani]

"I could ask the same of you."

Her voice is imperious, her tone clear, her pitch that of an alto, and her accent faintly (if you didn't know any better) British.

[weeper_of_blood]

"Everything and everyone is a problem. Not my problem, thankfully, but they're still a problem."

His own tone is sulky, low and distinctly European. Not even a language expert could pinpoint that accent of his.

[chemist_rani]

"You sound reasonable enough," she observed with a faint hint of approval. "I don't suppose you're not actually human..."

[weeper_of_blood]

A brief pause follows to consider the question. It's worrying that he actually has to think about it.

"I suppose being dead still makes me human, sadly. I take it your not, after a question like that?"

[chemist_rani]

"No," she agrees, sounding as if the very idea was insulting. "Very much not so. And yes, even a dead human is a human. That said..."

And she looks him over.

"The decomposition is surprisingly nonexistent."

...you might not believe it, but she is actually kidding.

[weeper_of_blood]

"I know. I've been embalmed. Amazing how such a technique can drag us out that little bit longer," he replies with a complete lack of enthusiasm.

Equally so, it may not sound it, but that's a joke.

"What are you, if not the disease that calls itself the human race?"

[chemist_rani]

"A Time Lord. You might be familiar with at least one of the two others who frequent this place."

She knew nothing of Romana other than her name, which she'd gotten from Ray, but the Doctor was another matter. Not that she gives any indication as such.

[weeper_of_blood]

He definitely knows one of the companions very well, and his knowledge on Time Lords is enough to warrant an eyebrow raise at the title.

"I've heard of your kind before, though I've only seen one other. Seen from a distance, but not met or approached. Male, skinny, seemed somewhat bouncy at the time." That last reason is enough of for Le Chiffre to avoid the Doctor.

[chemist_rani]

"The idiot then."

Normally, her voice would hold a faint tinge of irritation and a familiarity that almost seemed like grudging fondness. Right now, she could be talking about a particularly clumsy janitor at a lab she worked for three years ago for a total of two weeks.

"Please keep in mind he's an anomaly."

[weeper_of_blood]

"He looked it, on both accounts."

It's not hard to relate to a tone like that when he's spoken of so many others in a similar manner. Sometimes there's people he hates, sometimes there's just people that aren't even worth mentioning. And yet sometimes they manage to be both.

"I know of a friend of his too, and I would say one shouldn't judge a person by the company they keep, but it's too difficult not to when faced with people like that."

[chemist_rani]

"I've known a few of his 'companions'," she sniffs distastefully. "None of them have the brains to put together a children's puzzle, in my estimation. The ones I met previous to this place were blithering idiots and the one I met here attempted to convince me of a point in a discussion with nothing but illogical fluff and tears. I remain unimpressed."

[weeper_of_blood]

The fluff and tears wording gets a very short snort of a laugh before he goes back to his cigarette, smirking around it faintly.

"Sarah Jane, perhaps? Not that I'd do such a thing as dropping names." That'd just make him seem bitchy, and he is by no means like that. Usually.

[chemist_rani]

"I believe that was her name. I have better things to remember."

Which isn't to say she doesn't remember every last detail of the encounter. It's just that she doesn't care.

"Is she the 'company' you're familiar with, then?"

[weeper_of_blood]

"Sadly, yes. Though I'd also use the term 'familiar' rather loosely."

Does torturing count as being familiar? He'd say not. It's very easy to remain detached during such things.

"Do you not keep your own companion close by at all times as that other Time Lord does?"