002--There are no bananas in the sky

[dameluckypants.livejournal.com]

[Rose has a plate of banana bread, and is nibbling on a piece]

Well, I really wanted some chips, but this was the closest I could get. Found it in the cabinet. Anyone want some? It's actually pretty good, as far as banana bread goes.

Comments

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

I'd much prefer breaking out.

[dameluckypants.livejournal.com]

Of course you would.

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

Oh, and you wouldn't? You, one of the Doctor's assistants? You seem like one of the willing ones, and they don't tend to enjoy imprisonment.

[dameluckypants.livejournal.com]

...oh, all right. I would. I have.

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

As expected! Plus ça change...

[dameluckypants.livejournal.com]

What?

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

It's French. 'The more things change...'

[dameluckypants.livejournal.com]

Oh. Useful language, French.

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

Never can tell when you're going to have to get into a castle belonging to the French in order to find yourself a Holy Grail.

[dameluckypants.livejournal.com]

Ever find one, then?

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

A French castle, or a Holy Grail?

[dameluckypants.livejournal.com]

Both.

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

Then 'yes,' to both.

[dameluckypants.livejournal.com]

What's the holy grail like, then?

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

All the vastness of the universe - all its beauty, all its potential, all its destruction - in one thing, one un-have-able thing that so happens to be the only thing worth having. But there's simply too much in it to attain it all, and those who try are condemned to a lifetime of feeling unfulfilled.

[dameluckypants.livejournal.com]

....don't really think you can fit that in a French castle.

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

One wouldn't think one could fit a zeppelin in something with the external dimensions of a police box, either.

[dameluckypants.livejournal.com]

Was the castle like the TARDIS, then?

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

Oh, no. The Grail itself is what transcends.

[dameluckypants.livejournal.com]

Sounds amazing.

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, a regular sampo.

[dameluckypants.livejournal.com]

A regular what?

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

It's Finnish. Spend too much time in Russia and you end up taking over Finland at least once.

[dameluckypants.livejournal.com]

But Russia and Finland aren't even that close.

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

Next door neighbours, actually. Between Sweden and Russia, Finland only ends up spending a tenth of its time as an autonomous nation. The Russian invasion of 3811 is one of my favourites. Ahh, cabbages.