[Private | Audio]timesbureaucratFebruary 24 2011, 23:00:42 UTC
I'm not a professor and this isn't the Academy. I'm simply gathering information for a potential research project. It occurred to me that since the Time Lords have been isolationists for a very long time we don't know much about voluntary cross-species psychic links. You've spent a great deal of time around aliens, so you seemed like the obvious resource to ask. [Lying is the most automatic thing in the world for Narvin. Easy as opening his mouth.]
[Private | Audio]ears_fantasticFebruary 24 2011, 23:28:08 UTC
You're right. I have spent a lot of time around aliens.
What is it that you're really after, Narvin? You asked me, not my seventh or fourth versions. I imagine my tenth self stands on similar ground to you as I do. So, why me?
[Private | Audio]timesbureaucratFebruary 24 2011, 23:59:51 UTC
As it happens, I *have* talked to some of your other selves about this. I'm not singling you out. [Well, he talked to Ten in a very round about way and using an entirely different excuse. But a partial truth is the best kind of lie.]
Since you and your human are particularly close, I want to know if you've experienced any faint traces of a weak psychic link forming, the way it can between Time Lords.
[It's a trade off, Narvin knows. If Nine *doesn't* already know about the link with Kay, then this will surely give him Suspicions. But Narvin hopes that by de-emphasizing, he can make it seem like he's in the very first and very very weak, barely-there phases and not well established in Kay's head. And if Nine *was* the one who warned Kay, then Nine knows already and Narvin loses nothing.]
It's none of your business who it is. [But really, who else would it be?]
I'm going to discourage it from developing further, in any event. [Lies. It's already a fully developed link and Narvin did nothing to stop it from becoming that way.]
Are you really asking why I might prefer not to have an alien influence in my head? [Narvin's fairly well convinced now that it was not Nine who talked to Kay.]
Really? [Narvin sounds genuinely curious.] I thought you adored the primitive apes. You seemed to prefer their company to your own kind--before you killed off your own kind.
The TARDIS hasn't been affected.
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What is it that you're really after, Narvin? You asked me, not my seventh or fourth versions. I imagine my tenth self stands on similar ground to you as I do. So, why me?
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Since you and your human are particularly close, I want to know if you've experienced any faint traces of a weak psychic link forming, the way it can between Time Lords.
[It's a trade off, Narvin knows. If Nine *doesn't* already know about the link with Kay, then this will surely give him Suspicions. But Narvin hopes that by de-emphasizing, he can make it seem like he's in the very first and very very weak, barely-there phases and not well established in Kay's head. And if Nine *was* the one who warned Kay, then Nine knows already and Narvin loses nothing.]
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In the past, yes. [TOTALLY LEAVING ROSE OUT OF THIS.] You're experiencing a link forming with a human? [He's pretty certain it's Kay.]
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[He looks away as if troubled by the possibility.]
I...might be.
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Kay, is it?
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I'm going to discourage it from developing further, in any event. [Lies. It's already a fully developed link and Narvin did nothing to stop it from becoming that way.]
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Why?
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Are you really asking why I might prefer not to have an alien influence in my head? [Narvin's fairly well convinced now that it was not Nine who talked to Kay.]
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Yes, I am.
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Despite appearances, you're not a complete idiot. I'm sure you can figure it out. I'll even give you three hints. C. I. A.
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Just curious for your reasoning, that's all. I know it would bother me, a permanent link with a human.
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