[The Vesmier] Day 4362 of my captivity…

[rubaiyyat]

…and I am wearing the same ridiculous robes, sitting through the same ridiculous state dinner, and waiting to present my request for presentation before the High Council. The argument du jour is that Gallifrey must continue to expand its circle of influence or we risk losing the edge of advancement that allowed us to assume the role of Time Lords

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[storyinmypocket]

Tenth Doctor: Hello!

Hope you don't mind if I just step in to say a thing or two, but it's absolutely wonderful, the way you're still trying to make them see reason.

I mean, really, if you've had to sit through one meeting (and I have) you've had to sit through them all, and having the patience and the determination to go back time after time, trying to push something new into their stuffy old heads, well, it's the sort of thing that drives lesser men to despair. Or just into running full-speed for the nearest TARDIS and getting off the planet as quickly as possible.

But you! The gumption that must take! The sheer dogged persistence! Blimey, that's incredible. I'm in awe. This? This is me, awed.

And, ah, my condolences on having to try and talk to them. Really, I'm so sorry.

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[The Vesmier] And there's salient proof that our universes diverged; I never believed I'd hear anything of the sort from you. Still, we can't all be fighting the good fight out on the fringes of wherever, and I'm good at persistence, me. Whether its wonderful or an exercise in futility has yet to be decided. My only chance is to sway one of them. It's not as though they're about to appoint me Lord President any day.

On another note, I was accosted by one of your companions last night. A certain Rose Tyler who seems to have been separated from you at precisely the wrong time. I promised to have a message passed on to the Doctors in this headspace, with the caveat that they wouldn't be the ones she knew. I don't suppose it's any worse to pass the message along here as well. She's beginning to see causality, as well as having some difficulties as regards temperomorphic transference in host of choice or happenstance.

[storyinmypocket]

Tenth Doctor: ...You found Rose?

Er, is she... all right? Just, in general?

Not that I can be sure if she's the one I know or not from just that much information, but I'd still like her to be all right. I owe quite a bit to Rose Tyler.

Oh, and the Lord President thing... In desperate situations, you'd be positively amazed at who they'll give the job to. Really. Depending on how your timeline goes -- it's pointless to speculate from over here, because to be honest, I'd never have expected this much of a civilised conversation from you, either. Bit of a difference in possible realities there. But still. You would be surprised at who can end up in that role.

For the time being, though... Small steps, I suppose, and better you than me. I always was rubbish at putting up with all that bureaucratic nonsense.

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[The Vesmier] How should I know? She's human. I spent most of the night not understanding the conversation, or at least her motives. I can say she's afraid. Seeing possible futures and potential pasts, and she seemed to think that I was a good person to speak with by virtue of the fact that I was the nearest Time Lord. I advised her that what she was seeing wasn't a certain or even necessarily likely chain of causality and left it at that. I don't understand these species you're so fond of.

{Rose}

[reflectingsoul]

Thank you for passing this on Vesmier. Much appreciated.

Re: {Rose}

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[The Vesmier] •sardonic• Always eager to help. Go on. Be good, kid.

Re: {Rose}

[reflectingsoul]

I was trying to be polite by saying thank you, no need to go on and be snarky, now is there?

Re: {Rose}

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[The Vesmier] •sighs•

[storyinmypocket]

The Master: Oh, look. It's another version of me.

...And it's boring.

I wonder if I should poke it with a stick.

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[The Vesmier] Oh, look, it's a discarded causality. And its higher reasoning functions have been disabled. ...poor ruined thing.

[storyinmypocket]

The Master: Such words from such a small man, living such a sad, meaningless life.

It must be so tiring, day after day, presenting the same arguments only to have them ignored. Knowing that Gallifrey's so deeply sunken into apathy that it'll take nothing but the highest order of catastrophe before anyone bothers taking notice of what you've been saying all this time... By which point, of course, it's too late.

Do you actually enjoy the futility of it all?

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[The Vesmier] I'm very sorry for what's been done to you. Believe me. I can try to help, but I can't make any guarantees. If you'd send me a copy of your biodata I could submit it to the Institute for Neuromorphic Studies and I'm sure they could begin to make progress toward a cure.