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[The video function clicks on to show a bedroom which some people - well, okay, the Master - will recognise as being Mr and Mrs Saxon's room on the Valiant. A few moments later, Lucy moves into frame. Due to personal shallowness timey-wimey business, instead of prison greys and the awful jail haircut, she has the red dress and the disarrayed blonde curls.
She sits down on the edge of the bed, just staring at the camera for a moment. Her expression is almost completely blank, but there's a sort of bewilderment there, like she remembers how this all works but she doesn't remember how she knows.
It takes her a long time to speak.]
I just wanted it to be over.
I thought it would be so easy. Everything else ends so easily...everything falls apart and fades away. Everything dies, disappears...
Everything burns.
I died, but I'm still here.
Why?
She sits down on the edge of the bed, just staring at the camera for a moment. Her expression is almost completely blank, but there's a sort of bewilderment there, like she remembers how this all works but she doesn't remember how she knows.
It takes her a long time to speak.]
I just wanted it to be over.
I thought it would be so easy. Everything else ends so easily...everything falls apart and fades away. Everything dies, disappears...
Everything burns.
I died, but I'm still here.
Why?