And the Doctor, of course, is always bound to come running when Des tells him there's a strange creature who wants his help. Not that that happens often, but... Well, not really the point.
The Doctor bounds into the building and through the door into the front room like an overeager puppy, all bright grins and more energy than any normal person is prepared to deal with.
"Des, are you sure this building is actually- whoa!" He comes to an abrupt halt, seeing the hydralisk. Not what he was expecting. Not the usual sort of monster the Doctor's encountered since coming through the Rift. Now he understands what Des meant when he said it could eat his face.
"Oh, hello!" he says, his voice softening a little the way it tends to when he runs into something interesting that he's never seen before and isn't trying to kill him at the moment. The Doctor grins and moves a little closer to the hydralisk, starting to circle it slowly so he can examine it from a few more angles. Let's hope this is the creature Des was talking about, or the Doctor
( ... )
The hydralisk observes him as much as xes limited flexibility in the region of the head and neck will allow, occasionally repositioning xemself with a stationary halfslither when the Doctor moves too far outside xes range of vision. This time it's the Doctor's voice xe chooses to mimic.
{"Greetings, surfacedweller! I represent a peaceful consortium of various species living beneath your city...."}
The Doctor's mouth drops open for just a second, and then the grin is back, and even brighter. "Oh, that is brilliant, that is! Aren't you a clever little thing?" The way the Doctor's fawning over it, you'd think it was a puppy that just performed a trick, rather than a living war machine that could tear him apart if it wanted. "Right, sorry. Peaceful consortium of various species... Go ahead, I'm listening!"
The hydralisk is unphased. Social niceties of any sort don't really register to xem, so social mis-steps won't, either.
{"We have existed for several grand climate cycles in the network of passages beneath your surface city, composting the various runoff for application in our agricultural industry. However, recently this runoff has been contaminated with significant amounts of heavy earth metals and radioactive elements which make it unsuitable for composting and threaten our foodcrop. I have come to request to lodge a civil complaint against those polluting our fertilizer. Your assistance in this pursuit is respectfully solicited!"}
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The Doctor bounds into the building and through the door into the front room like an overeager puppy, all bright grins and more energy than any normal person is prepared to deal with.
"Des, are you sure this building is actually- whoa!" He comes to an abrupt halt, seeing the hydralisk. Not what he was expecting. Not the usual sort of monster the Doctor's encountered since coming through the Rift. Now he understands what Des meant when he said it could eat his face.
"Oh, hello!" he says, his voice softening a little the way it tends to when he runs into something interesting that he's never seen before and isn't trying to kill him at the moment. The Doctor grins and moves a little closer to the hydralisk, starting to circle it slowly so he can examine it from a few more angles. Let's hope this is the creature Des was talking about, or the Doctor ( ... )
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{"Greetings, surfacedweller! I represent a peaceful consortium of various species living beneath your city...."}
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{"We have existed for several grand climate cycles in the network of passages beneath your surface city, composting the various runoff for application in our agricultural industry. However, recently this runoff has been contaminated with significant amounts of heavy earth metals and radioactive elements which make it unsuitable for composting and threaten our foodcrop. I have come to request to lodge a civil complaint against those polluting our fertilizer. Your assistance in this pursuit is respectfully solicited!"}
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