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[A green light and high-pitched ringing precedes a face coming into view, too close at first, and then pulling away to reveal ridiculous floppy hair and a blue bowtie. The journal is clearly propped up against something to record.]
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I regret to inform you of this, Doctor, but it is fairly unlikely that the Malnosso would acquiese to your requests, as logical and ethical as it would be to do so.
Judging by the fact you seem so new to the whole procedure, you have been indicted, rather against your will, into the experimental compound known as Luceti. The wings that you possess are a consistent feature amongst all the sapients held here in the compound...
[He pauses here a moment, shifting his lab coat away from him enough so that the Doctor can see his own set of wings - European magpie (Pica pica) wings, or a near-perfect replica of them anyway.
The Doctor might notice that Robert doesn't expose his arms while he does this.]I have attempted to investigate their exact functions, but the data eludes me at present. However, they are tied inextricably to ( ... )
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Could you tell me, if I were to have lost something, where I might find it?
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Anyway, sorry, mumbling again, I do that. Lucky the TARDIS isn't easy to steal, bit big, and really very stubborn when she wants to be. You're being very helpful and well-spoken, what's your name?
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And mumbling is quite alright. [Robert used to do it all the time, and he still lapses into it occasionally when he isn't being super-formal.]
My name is Professor Robert Alexander Hastings. It is a pleasure to meet you, Doctor, though I regret that it was under these conditions.
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I understand that I am several hundred years in the relative "future" of many of the residents here, but due to multiversal theory, that means rather little in context.
[Robert tilts his head a little questioningly.] And yourself, Doctor, if I may ask?
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A... Time Lord...?
[Robert's tone is very incredulous and blatantly skeptical, though not nearly as much as it would have been if the Doctor met him four months earlier.]
You are... likely from a completely different multiverse, then, as I assure you, Doctor - my spacetime has no lord, or anything else, associated with it.
[Is this one of those existing-"gods" that other worlds' denizens keep talking about?]
In fact, my world is completely devoid of the paranormal. I have even run experimentation here in order to confirm it, though more is needed before I can have a completely solid conclusion.
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... And you are the only one left? [Much sadder. Robert knows extinction fairly well, though he didn't live through the Great Cleansing. But he's seen the documentation.]
Ah, well, I would hope Terra would be an interesting place. It... seems rather an anomaly, here. An anomaly in the positive sense, perhaps.
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[Doctor, your description is making Robert very curious. Assuming there ever gets to be any scanners in Luceti, he might politely ask if he could take a look at these "wacky" biological things.
And he's making a note of that internal body temperature in the event that he ever finds himself having to do medical check-ups on the Doctor.]
... It is remarkable how many hominid non-human sapients exist here. In my multiverse, the hominid body plan is quite rare, and most sapients have vastly different shapes. But here there are individuals with entire planets full of different kinds of hominid sapients, though all of them are non-humans. Most peculiar...
And yes. Interesting indeed. [Robert does wonder just how interesting, though. Or what kind of interesting.]
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Okay, let me put it this way. You're a human. [finger guns in your direction] I'm a Time Lord. [a "who has two thumbs and also two hearts? this guy" motion] They're the same sort of level, only if you want to be really technical, hominid or, ah, 'sapient' don't really apply well to Time Lords--human language, human constructs, only Time Lords came first. Any of this helping?
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... And just one Time Lord left... that's saddening, too.]
And I fail to see how "sapient" would not apply well to you. After all, by having this conversation with me, you are demonstrating all the tenets of sapience. However, I could use another term if you would prefer.
[Though, this is making Robert think. He asks what might be an obvious question.]
... Though if Time Lords existed before the humans of your multiverse, then is the physical similarity purely coincidental? Because... that is an absolutely remarkable degree of similarity.
Not impossible, per se, but... incredibly improbable.
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It's all a bit complicated to explain, I think, sapient applies but it's also like, like, ahh--calling a banana just a plant when you can break it down further into "fruit" and so on and so on. Time Lordy stuff, bit wonky, difficult to translate. First to evolve out of all sentient species, you see, so--morphic resonance, badabing-badaboom, TimeLordiness starts to show up in other sentient lifeforms as well all across space and time.
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