61 // [Audio]
At the age of eight, I was taken to stare into the Untempered Schism, a gap in the fabric of time and space. It's part of a Time Lord initiation ceremony. Look into the Vortex. Prove you're one of us. And it went on and on, staring into eternity, looking at everything, somehow. I couldn't look away, they wouldn't let me yet, no, but I couldn't. It felt like falling while standing still. It felt like I could reach out and take hold of it, tie knots in reality. And then I heard the drums, the drums and they called me forward, and they drove me onward...
[A gasped intake of breath. And then the device is fumbled, and turned off.]
[A gasped intake of breath. And then the device is fumbled, and turned off.]