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[Onto the Plane appears a young woman in silver slippers, blue jeans and a button-up blouse, appearing entirely average and not at all like someone who would stand out in a crowd-- except she's not in a crowd, she's just arrived on the Plane, and that makes her far more noticeable. She steps around carefully, wide-eyed, turning in little slow pirouettes as she stares at the stars around her.]

Well! This's new. I s'pect I'm not s'posed to have ended up here, seeing as I know where I was and where I ought to've ended up, and since I'm not there, I must've done something different to turn up... well, here. [She scratches her head.] Maybe I sneezed.

[Jamming her hands into the back pockets of her jeans, she meanders around, examining her surroundings with a casual curiosity. She's especially fascinated with the seeming lack of floor.]

So if I'm not there... hmm. Let's see, I was on the Yellow Brick Road, heading away from the Emerald City... I was in the Poppyfield! [She frowns, stopping her pacing.] Glinda told me she'd gotten rid of the enchantment on those poppies.... If I'm asleep in that field right now, Ozma'll never let me hear the end of it! ...But I have to say, this isn't like any dream I've ever had. I'm fairly sure I've never dreamed of walking around in the stars before... though I might wanna start, It's awful pretty here. Wherever "here" is.

[Hands on her hips, she looks around, an approving smile on her face.] I like it. I do seem to be lost, but... eh, I wasn't really going anywhere special, anyways. Always got time for a little exploring.

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Ah, so you go looking for adventure! Can't say I blame you. Do you do a lot of traveling, then?

Well, that settles it. I'll have to take you. Can you imagine an entire city of emerald green, towering spires glittering green in the sun?

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Yep! Everywhere and anywhere all over time and space. [bragging? just a bit]

[then he grins] I could imagine it but I don't think it's the same as seeing it. Although, despite this being a lovely little meeting ground, there are rules for seeing each other's worlds.

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[hiii, don't mind the brief mental prod, they'll be out of each other's business in a moment]

{I know what you're thinking, Doctor - well, obviously - and you're an absolute idiot.

...But yes, yes you may.}

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{...Oh, really? Well! I'll suggest it to her, then. Dorothy, oh, this place is brilliant.}

[Happy!Doctor is certainly happy]

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{Oh, Rassilon, I'm shutting you out before you make me ill.}

[and he gets a mental hit before the walls go down]

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Time and space! Wonderful! How do you travel in time?

Rules? [EPIC POUT IS EPIC] What rules?

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My ship. She's called the TARDIS and, well, actually she's around, so you might meet her. But she can travel anywhere. It's brilliant, if I say so.

[aww, pouting] Well! The rules. Nothing too horrible, actually. We can visit each other's worlds as long as we become friends, get close, mingle, that sort of thing. It tends to happen naturally with friends. [Or enemies but he'd rather explain friendship things to Dorothy]

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A time ship! You have a time ship! Oh, that's amazing!! I didn't know there were such things. Oh, you have to introduce me. Really, you have to. Please? Pretty please? Oh, say you will!

That shouldn't be too hard. I'm very good at making friends!

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[he laughs] All right! I will, promise. If she doesn't find you first, I'll make her come say hi. She isn't always good with socializing.

Excellent! I like to think I make friends well enough. We should be able to visit in no time.

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[omg YAY! Dorothy gives him a little peck on the cheek, aww.]

You and I are going to be fast friends, I can tell already. Believe me, I've got a pretty good nose for these sorts of things.

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[awww! The Doctor is positively bouncy thanks to her]

The nose usually knows! [taps her nose with a smile] Speaking of knows! What do you know about this place so far? We really should get together a welcome packet for this.

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[she giggles at the nose-tappin'. Honest to goodness GIGGLES.]

Oh, well, not much, really. Everyone made sure to say it's called the Astral Plane, not that anyone explained much of what it is. The Master mentioned something about... being brought here for some reason. But I can't imagine what anyone would want with me. I'm just an ordinary girl, after all.

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Ordinary girls from the merry old land of Oz must be on their list of interests. 'Their' being our hosts. It is supposed to be some sort of...experiment or some such but mostly it's been on individual levels, doesn't usually last long.

[then he blinks] Oh, yes, you met the Master, then? The ah, beardless one?

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Just what kind of experiment is it, anyway? Doesn't anybody know? Aren't people supposed to be reimbursed for participating in experiments? Nobody even asked me. Pretty place or not, that's awful rude.

Oh! Yes. Sharp dresser, great big grin? I'm bringing him pie. Seemed awful keen to try my baking, and who am I to argue?

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Nope! I'm betting on 'social experiment' myself. Oh, sure, odd things happen but people always react in interesting ways when something odd happens. It is rather rude but, well, they don't keep us here, at least.

Ah, I see. I was curious. He sort of...lives with me. What sort of pie?

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That's true. At least we can come and go as we please-- I'm sure my Uncle Henry would get awful worried about me if I stayed away for too long. I mean, that's if time passed outside of here, since apparently it doesn't. I'm not 'zactly clear on how that works, by the way.

Oh! Then you're a Time Lord too? Of course you would be, being a time traveler and all. Are all time travelers Time Lords, or are all Time Lords time travelers? This is all terrifically complicated. And strawberry rhubarb. It's my specialty. You're welcome to have some too, of course!

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To be honest, neither am I. I suppose this place could exist between folding layers of spacetime, which might explain why people pop in and out.

Nah, not all time travellers or Time Lords and actually not all Time Lords traveled time, which really was a shame. The Master and I are - were? Still are? - renegades. And I'd love to try your pie.

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Maybe it's magic.

Renegades! That's a bit romantic.

Of course you would. Never refuse a princess's offer of pie; I'm sure that's in some foreign policy handbook somewhere.

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Or science.

'Romantic', hm? Well, I suppose you could say that. It's all about the journey, really, and you can't get more romantic than that.

[laughs] Last time I refused royal food, I ended up captured by a malfunctioning computer. I learned my lesson, really.

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Or magic!

...I guess, in a way. Never thought about it like that before. But I meant that it was like something out of a book, calling yourself "Renegades". Like a movie trailer, or something. [And here she affects something approximating the Movie Trailer Guy voice] "IN A WORLD... WHERE TWO RENEGADE TIME TRAVELERS STRUGGLE TO SURVIVE..." And then there's a whole lot of things blowing up for no reason, and people running away from them in slow-mo.

Well, good. Then it's pie for you. You look like you need it, anyway, you're awful skinny!

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Or science.

[he stares for a minute before he bursts out laughing. Give him a second] That's...you know, I didn't really think about it but we'd make for really good television. Or movies. A series, mind you, because we're both quite old.

[now he pouts a bit] I'm not skinny! Just a bit...long, that's all.

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Or MAGIC!

[Oh she made him LAUGH! Now she's all proud of herself.] "The Adventures of The Doctor, Also Starring The Master, with Mary Tyler Moore and Don Knotts, and Jerry Mathers as "The Beaver"." It'll run at least two seasons, I'm sure of it.

You are so skinny! Look, you're skinnier than I am! Not that that's saying much, but really, you're like a flagpole with hair!

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Or science!! ...This is going to become an 'is not' 'is too' if it goes on too long.

[but he grins] We'll get canceled in the third season but everyone will think we were brilliant and wish we'd gotten more seasons.

I-I'm not a flagpole with hair!

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Probably. Seems like we'll just have to agree to disagree. Are you one of those "I don't believe in magic" types?

Maybe you'll get pulled off the air by the government for being too entertaining!

I know! I said you were like a flagpole with hair. Flagpoles are much taller and shinier, and they don't wear ties. Well... that I know of.

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Well, I believe Arthur C. Clarke said it best: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." The opposite is also true. Really, either way, it's science at the route of magic.

Funny enough! There actually are governments like that. I try to avoid them.

Still, it isn't a very good comparison. There aren't flagpoles as well dressed as I am. Or with such nice hair.