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[doctorate.livejournal.com]

. . . Oh, this. This. Is. Gorgeous.

No, really, I mean it. I've seen a lot of things -- more things that you'd think I ever would, given my youthful and altogether handsome appearance, -- but this place. Brilliant! So flash! So shiny! Well, they're stars, how could they not be shiny? Although, strictly speaking, stars are more luminous than shiny. But you can't use luminous in an interjection. Too many syllables. Can't be spouting off exclamations of surprise if it takes more than a second. Wouldn't really be surprised, then -- it'd sound too premeditated to be genuine.

So! The shop's the gateway, yeah? Never seen it before today, and I'd figured I'd gotten used to this version of London by now. Still, always did like a little shop, but it feels a bit wrong that it'd be used for sinister purposes like this -- after all, I can't really see this as being positive, the whole kidnapping and displacing thing. I guess you really can't ever trust a salesman. Or a saleswoman. Or a salestwin, as the case might be.

But right, anyway! Sinister little shop leading to a mysterious planetarium taken to an extreme scale? I might be new to this universe, still, but I'm reasonably sure this wouldn't be considered normal.

Now, who wants to offer an explanation before I call for back-up? And you might want to be quick about it -- I like calling for back-up.

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[doctorate.livejournal.com]

Human biological metacrisis.

[Feeling that this is enough explanation, apparently!]

[saythistostart.livejournal.com]

[Ryotarou's expression should tell him it... really isn't.]

[doctorate.livejournal.com]

Right, er, needs a bit more explanation, eh?

So! Once upon a time, I had my right hand cut off. Well, turns out someone -- namely, one Captain Jack -- picked it up and preserved it to use it as a sort of Doctor compass.

Kind of recently, I had a near-death experience, and nearly regenerated. So! Instead of regenerating completely, I used the energy to heal myself, then siphoned the rest off into the handy-dandy hand-- [which he'll be waving.] There it is.

Then, my plucky companion, Donna Noble, touched the hand, reactivating the energy, and , here I am.

[saythistostart.livejournal.com]

[... blinks]

That made... some sense. [Probably less brain-breaking than memories = time = desert, at least.]

[doctorate.livejournal.com]

Can't make it much clearer than that, really.

[saythistostart.livejournal.com]

I believe that.

[doctorate.livejournal.com]

So! I'm the Doctor, only human. Human body, Time Lord consciousness and mind.

Still the Doctor, though, see?

[saythistostart.livejournal.com]

[nods]

Do you still travel through time?

[doctorate.livejournal.com]

No, unfortunately, not the sort of traveling I'm used to, anyway. Can't, really. No TARDIS for me where I am.

[saythistostart.livejournal.com]

No TARDIS? [D:] Why not?

[doctorate.livejournal.com]

My other self has it. My original self, I suppose you could say. Only one TARDIS in the universe, and I suppose it's only proper that he gets it, seeing as how, well, he sort of got there first.

[saythistostart.livejournal.com]

Ah... And there's nothing else that can travel like the TARDIS?

[doctorate.livejournal.com]

Nothing quite as nice. Not as yet, anyway.

[saythistostart.livejournal.com]

Yet? ... So.. sometime in the future, there will be?

[doctorate.livejournal.com]

Far, far, faaar in the future, yeah. A bit longer than I've got, though. Although who knows in the universe I'm in -- they seem to be at least a few decades ahead. So that'd be at least thirty years off my estimated three millennia.

[saythistostart.livejournal.com]

[Hey, at least you have a future.]

I... see.

[doctorate.livejournal.com]

Till then, I'll just have to do some old fashioned traveling around Earth once I've had my fill of London.

I'm estimating that to happen within the coming months. We'll have to wait and see.

[saythistostart.livejournal.com]

[nods] Do you have any idea where you'll go, once you do..?

[doctorate.livejournal.com]

Me? Not a clue! [Looking sort of amused.] I'm thinking about getting a world map and throwing a dart at random, to tell you the truth.

[saythistostart.livejournal.com]

[little smile at that] Sounds like fun. ... as long as it didn't land in an ocean or something.

[doctorate.livejournal.com]

I suppose that'd be grounds for a retry.

Although, exploring the depths has its own merits, of course.

[saythistostart.livejournal.com]

[headtilt] Except it's not quite the same as going to an actual town or city.

[doctorate.livejournal.com]

Just because it hasn't got any buildings constructed doesn't mean it's not worth exploring, yeah? 'Sides, I could make friends with a fish. I'd name it George, I think.

[saythistostart.livejournal.com]

I suppose. ... Why George?

[doctorate.livejournal.com]

Seems like a good name for a fish, don't you think?