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[handysparehand.livejournal.com]

[have some of the TARDIS wardrobe set out on the Plane. You might see things like this and this and this, along with all types of other clothes as well. Handy is going through it, looking for some clothes to get by before he replenishes his wardrobe. He holds a shirt up against his chest as he studies his reflection in a floor length mirror and then quickly tosses it aside, going back to sort through the racks of clothing]

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[savagestime.livejournal.com]

I remember being told that the robes were supposed to be comfortable because we weren't supposed to like it. But I that isn't what it was. The robes were supposed to become comfortable. The Academy was supposed to make us like its suffocation, and when we were used to it - when we started to crave the impractical robes and the ornate rituals - that was when they knew they had us. That was when a young Gallifreyan's mind was broken into old Gallirey's ways.

[The Master tugs on one of the fold]

Always liked the square folds in it. Such an elegant, simple thing when you take it apart, but it seems complex at first glance.

[handysparehand.livejournal.com]

I don't think I ever thought about it that much. Or maybe I did? I don't know.

[hesitates for a moment]

Do you crave them now?

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

The robes, yes. They're impractical, and I wouldn't wear them outside a TARDIS, but I want to have them. I want to be able to wear them if I want to. I want that choice. You destroyed Gallifrey, and now it isn't a choice.

Not the rituals, though. ...Well, some of them. I always like a good ritual. Maybe if we tossed in a bit more summoning, I'd be sold.

[handysparehand.livejournal.com]

[may have actually genuinely grinned at the last part]

So needs more summoning, then?

[pauses and shrugs]

You're free to have the robe if you like. Don't think anyone will notice it's gone missing. Too much stuff in this place, anyway.

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

Everything needs more summoning, Doctor. I thought you knew.

I had no plans to give it back.

[handysparehand.livejournal.com]

Everything?

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

Name one thing that would be ruined by summoning.

[handysparehand.livejournal.com]

Well, I don't know.

[seems to think and then just shrugs]

Maybe you're right.

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

...Oooh, say that again.

[handysparehand.livejournal.com]

I would, but your head is big enough as is.

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

Well if you don't want to say it, I shan't force you. It's not half so satisfying.

[handysparehand.livejournal.com]

Well then, we'll just have to wait until you're right about something else. That might take a while. Wonder if I'll still be around to see it.

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

You'd have to die very quickly to miss it.

[handysparehand.livejournal.com]

Well, you'll just have to get my attention when it's coming. It really is a blink and you miss it sort of event.

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

Like light, and I am the sun, constantly emanating it.

[he says this with a grand sweep of his robe-clad arms. he looks a right proper Gallireyan!]

[handysparehand.livejournal.com]

[rolls his eyes, in an attempt to appear unamused by the gesture, but he actually does laugh at that]

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

[mimicking Borusa's voice]

Theta Sigma, that noise is not well-suited to the Academy halls. I would advise you stifle it.

[handysparehand.livejournal.com]

[still trying to appear unimpressed, and still failing at hiding his amusement]

I think those robes have gone straight to your head.

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

At least I have something there, rather than the empty fluff you choose to fill your mind with.

[handysparehand.livejournal.com]

Empty fluff?

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

Studies on Earth, among other planets. Your lessons in mathematics are suffering as a result.

[handysparehand.livejournal.com]

I like universal cultures. It's not empty fluff.

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

[wagging finger of discipline time]

It is secondary to your studies in the science.

[handysparehand.livejournal.com]

I think you enjoy playing at Borusa way too much.

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

[grinning]

I didn't even get to the bit where he lectures you on always appearing late to lessons with that other boy, with rumbled clothing and messy hair.

I hope he didn't actually notice. Would have been horribly awkward. Maybe that's why he never liked me.