Aislinn, isn't it? Your colouring is the same, the eyes, the line of the jaw...though the actual chin is a bit different. Are you another of the Leanan Sídhe?
Yes, much better now. And back to the discussion --
Well, as you might imagine, the mood lifted immensely when I found the Tharil communication terminal amidst my possessions and was able to make contact with others, including the Doctor.
Ah, the Doctor. The instrument of my discovery that there are worlds outside of my own, the renegade mentor who showed me that Time Lords can be so much more than the academic living dead... He truly is the ultimate beneficent-subversive, you know. And I was utterly seduced by these qualities. In a mental capacity, you understand. There were times when the possibility of something physical hung between us in an extremely palpable manner...but I never took the step that would have made such occur. I think I loosened up quite a bit after my first regeneration, but perhaps not enough.
After I left him...for many fine, socially-active reasons that seemed very noble at the time. And they were noble, and my work was needed and important. But I know that a large part of my motivation to depart was
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Matters of the heart are supposed to leave you out of your depth, I think. I avoided them for nearly a century and a half for that very reason. Purely physical relationships are so much simpler.
I don't really know the Doctor, and what I do know...well. He swooped in and carried my mother off without so much as a by your leave, and I haven't a clue if he has any notion of how to see she's cared for, and Byron gets careless about such things, so I worry, which doesn't give me the highest opinion of him.
But he seems the type to want to rescue you. Aislinn says he's lonely for his own people, which I can understand. More than that, I don't know, except that she likes you and that is a far more rare thing than you might imagine.
I've been glad for this opportunity to meet those in the Doctor's circle (and extensions thereof, such as yourself), but at a distance. There's less confrontation involved, and it's easier to get used to things over time
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There are days I'd beg you to be that rival and make him send her home, but I'd ask you not to tell anyone that. She'd be upset if she knew.
'Sterile' and 'dessicated' seem horribly sad words to me, especially when coming from someone like you. Intimacy is terrifying, yes, but it's an experience of being alive that ought to be embraced by anyone capable of it. Your people--you and the Doctor at least--seem capable of it, so you are denying yourself something amazing if you back away too often or too far
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Now, you look very familiar to me, but I don't believe we've met. I'm Romana -- and who might you be?
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I am Devin. We haven't met, that I know of, but I believe you know my mother.
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Aislinn, isn't it? Your colouring is the same, the eyes, the line of the jaw...though the actual chin is a bit different. Are you another of the Leanan Sídhe?
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Well, as you might imagine, the mood lifted immensely when I found the Tharil communication terminal amidst my possessions and was able to make contact with others, including the Doctor.
Ah, the Doctor. The instrument of my discovery that there are worlds outside of my own, the renegade mentor who showed me that Time Lords can be so much more than the academic living dead... He truly is the ultimate beneficent-subversive, you know. And I was utterly seduced by these qualities. In a mental capacity, you understand. There were times when the possibility of something physical hung between us in an extremely palpable manner...but I never took the step that would have made such occur. I think I loosened up quite a bit after my first regeneration, but perhaps not enough.
After I left him...for many fine, socially-active reasons that seemed very noble at the time. And they were noble, and my work was needed and important. But I know that a large part of my motivation to depart was ( ... )
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I don't really know the Doctor, and what I do know...well. He swooped in and carried my mother off without so much as a by your leave, and I haven't a clue if he has any notion of how to see she's cared for, and Byron gets careless about such things, so I worry, which doesn't give me the highest opinion of him.
But he seems the type to want to rescue you. Aislinn says he's lonely for his own people, which I can understand. More than that, I don't know, except that she likes you and that is a far more rare thing than you might imagine.
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'Sterile' and 'dessicated' seem horribly sad words to me, especially when coming from someone like you. Intimacy is terrifying, yes, but it's an experience of being alive that ought to be embraced by anyone capable of it. Your people--you and the Doctor at least--seem capable of it, so you are denying yourself something amazing if you back away too often or too far ( ... )
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