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[neverendingbeat]

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

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[hidesinrestroom]

Drums...?

[neverendingbeat]

Drums.

[He flips on the sound to drum on the device's mic. DADADA DUM DADADA DUM.]

[hidesinrestroom]

I remember you mentioning them before...

[neverendingbeat]

Did I? How surprising. One would think that I'd had them all my life.

[hidesinrestroom]

Your sarcasm hurts me, Master.

[neverendingbeat]

The drums hurt me. Which one of those is more physical?

[hidesinrestroom]

Yours.

Why drums though...?

[neverendingbeat]

I used to think I knew. I'm not sure I do, anymore.

[hidesinrestroom]

Does it change when something happens to a world..?

[neverendingbeat]

"It"? "Something"? Could you be slightly more specific?

[hidesinrestroom]

Does the drumbeat change say if.. a world stops existing.

[neverendingbeat]

Mm.

[Private/Unhackable]
When my world was destroyed, there was no change. If another world stops existing all by itself, there's no change.

But they do seem to like it if I make a world stop existing.

private//unhackable;

[hidesinrestroom]

... "They?"

private//unhackable;

[neverendingbeat]

The drums.