[she should have guessed he'd hear. After all, she'd gone to the TARDIS for help, even if it hadn't been him. Well... the him she'd been expecting. But that didn't mean she had to be happy about it.]
[oh-so-cheerfully] Everything's fine. It's as good as new.
Yes... I was a bit out of it that night. I didn't mean to worry anybody [quick laugh] I'm fine, really.
How have you been? Did you ever finish what you were working on when I ran into you? [she'd been so distracted by the TARDIS, she'd never had the chance to ask him what she'd interrupted]
It's called a sonic screwdriver. I ran into someone from my future who I give it to and it needs quite a bit of modification before it can reach the point where I give it to her, so.
A sonic screwdriver? How exactly do you modify a screwdriver? [she's not scoffing. She's curious. Last she knew, screwdrivers only had one purpose]
[shaking her head at the idea of meeting someone from his future] I'd ask if it's strange, meeting people from different times in your life... but you were time traveling before the castle brought you here.
Depending on the person, yes. Crossing into established events is strictly forbidden. But time isn't a linear progression of cause to effect so some things run in a circle and only happen because meetings like that occur in the past and effect that person's future in their personal timeline.
But what happens if someone changes that person's personal timeline a second time? That would change the future again, right? How do you know if it's an established event or not?
Well, first of all, there's a distinct difference between established events and fixed points in time. Established events are ones that have already happened in your own, personal timeline. Fixed points are points that have to happen exactly the way they did otherwise the entire universe could unravel. Outside of these few fixed points, everything else is in flux and subject to change.
As for knowing which points are fixed or flux... well. You sort of have to be a Time Lord to tell. We're able to sense these sorts of things. It comes with the being able to see everything that was, everything that is and could ever possibly be bit.
It's a little more complicated, but yeah. That's the simple version. You'd probably have to have an in-depth knowledge of the conscious, subconscious and unconscious mind and how they function together in a Time Lord's brain to really completely understand it.
Doctor... you know what? Filtered forever. ::keeps trying to type Church:: >.<tehoniongirlFebruary 18 2010, 23:11:57 UTC
I'll stick to my art, then.
So can you see that for us? How things work out for each of the residents? Or has the castle changed things?
[she's curious, but also wary. That kind of knowledge... it could reveal so much, both in the future and the past. She was never one to close her mind to something... but she wasn't sure it was the kind of thing she wanted to know, either.]
[oh-so-cheerfully] Everything's fine. It's as good as new.
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How have you been? Did you ever finish what you were working on when I ran into you? [she'd been so distracted by the TARDIS, she'd never had the chance to ask him what she'd interrupted]
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...I'll have take you up on that! [she couldn't pass up an invitation like that. Besides, she still needed to thank the TARDIS for that first tour]
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Brilliant!
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[shaking her head at the idea of meeting someone from his future] I'd ask if it's strange, meeting people from different times in your life... but you were time traveling before the castle brought you here.
Do you ever actually get used to it?
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I didn't really have to get used to it. It's a little benefit of being a Time Lord. My brain was wired for that sort of thing.
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Can't that cause problems? Meeting people who know you in other timelines? It seems that could make things really complicated.
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Depending on the person, yes. Crossing into established events is strictly forbidden. But time isn't a linear progression of cause to effect so some things run in a circle and only happen because meetings like that occur in the past and effect that person's future in their personal timeline.
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As for knowing which points are fixed or flux... well. You sort of have to be a Time Lord to tell. We're able to sense these sorts of things. It comes with the being able to see everything that was, everything that is and could ever possibly be bit.
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So can you see that for us? How things work out for each of the residents? Or has the castle changed things?
[she's curious, but also wary. That kind of knowledge... it could reveal so much, both in the future and the past. She was never one to close her mind to something... but she wasn't sure it was the kind of thing she wanted to know, either.]
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