[For Susan/people in Susan's Tardis]

[eutermesan]

C'rizz let himself into the console room, privately glad that he'd got the right one despite all the new, identical-as-ever arrivals. There was no obvious sign of life, but she could always be tucked away somewhere under the console trying to get her ship working again, and so C'rizz walked the long way around the room, going over in his head what

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[unearthlysusan]

Susan had spent the majority of the last twenty four hours tinkering with the TARDIS, attempting to coax her back to life. However, after talking to her Grandfather and realising that none of them were working, she'd given up. If the Doctor hadn't succeeded in fixing his own ship, it was unlikely Susan would manage it.

She didn't like sitting and doing nothing, though. Given the urgency of the situation, even a little relaxation seemed misplaced. She wasn't entirely sure what she could do just yet, but assumed someone would let her know when more affirmative action could taken.

Until then, she'd pour through the books she'd collected from the TARDIS library. She was carrying another stack of them into the console room when she saw C'rizz, and smiled.

"Hello," she said, setting the pile down, "Have you been out? Did you find anything interesting?"

[eutermesan]

C'rizz gave a brief smile in greeting before the slight frown he'd been wearing reasserted itself. "Yes, and ye-es, but I'd try 'chaos' instead of 'interesting'. It seems to be a fact that there's only a small part of the universe left, only no one knows why. And that was from talking to three Doctors," he added, the ignorance of the man(men?) that everyone always went to for answers underlining the confusion of the situation.
He looked at the stack of books she'd just put down and then round at the other piles. "Did you find anything interesting?"

[unearthlysusan]

He was certainly entitled to be frowning, then. Susan straightened up, her books forgotten, and looked over at him with a clearly worried expression on her face.

"All of it?" she said. The fact that her Grandfather hadn't understood about the TARDIS was disconcerting enough. The fact that he didn't know how it had happened - let along how to fix it - was even worse! "I thought...well, I hoped I was wrong. We did fail..."

She sank down into the nearest chair. "I've been trying to fix my ship," she replied, "According to the people I've spoken to, none of the TARDISes are working. But even if they can't travel through time and space now, they should be allowed to move around on Earth."

[eutermesan]

C'rizz nodded grimly "Yes, or at least most of it. The Doctor, the one with-" Actually, it seemed quite pointless to try and distinguish between them, so he stopped, not attempting a description. "He thinks that that could be why the Tardises aren't working. 'Universal confusion' I think he said." Following her as she went to sit down, he stopped a metre or so short of the chair and looked at her with concern. "People are working on it," he said in what was hopefully a reassuring tone, "one of the Doctors was examining data from the Library of...somewhere, looking at, er, data readings." A pause, then he added, "Although he did keep saying that none of it made any sense."

((OOC Sorry if I'm slow, my Internet keeps messing up unexpectedly))

[splendid_roman]

Ian wandered into Susan's TARDIS from the outside world. "Ah, C'rizz. Glad to see you're still here." Not that he disliked meeting new people, but he wished more of the old people had stayed.

[eutermesan]

C'rizz turned, giving a nod of greeting when he saw who it was. "Why wouldn't I still be? Have people been disappearing as well as everything else?"

[splendid_roman]

Ian sighed. "They have. I'm not sure how many but, well, that can't be a good sign." Although mostly he felt at a bit of a loose end with Adric gone.

[eutermesan]

"No, it can't," he agreed, frown deepening. "Although quite a few seem to have been arriving - I met two new Doctors just walking across the lawn to get back here."