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[On the ground there are three chalk circles with weird designs in them. One might even call these 'transmutation circles,' if one was so inclined. Very likely, one isn't. ]

[Sitting in the centre of the first circle is an old transistor radio.]

He destroys!

[The Master puts his hands over the circle, in glowing yellow light, the radio falls apart. Satisfied, the Master kicks the pieces over to the next circle.]

He creates!

[Hands-putting and yellow light repeat, but this time, the pieces come together and the radio is whole again. Another kick sends the radio into the final circle. This time, when he puts his hands over the circle, the radio lights on fire]

He thinks this really needs some sort of incantation. And pictograms. Pictionary, now that's an idea. Magical pictionary, now with one hundred percent more setting on fire the idiot who can't get that a pair of stars is 'binary'! Buy now for the low low price of years studying molecular structure.

[The Master starts cleaning up the alchemy circles by smudging them away with his toe. He was always a very diligent student]

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Nope! Not on the TARDIS, not in the zero-room, not outside the TARDIS, in the most isolated atmosphere I can create.

That says interesting things about this place, then. Not that I'm too surprised. Just the different feeling of time is enough of a hint.

[he looks at the Doctor - all laws are true here, but they cannot be true all at once and with everyone at the same time, or it would collapse. Probably. So then what?

It's Gallifreyan scribbling time!]

[The Doctor ponders for a moment before laughing.]

It's a logic problem. One that wouldn't have a logical answer. All forms of physics exist in one place would lead to no forms of physics existing in one place.

So the infinite amounts to nothing. How depressing. I'll have to solve it.

Or the infinite contains nothing. [Gives him a curious look.] With alchemy?

With science and experimentation and the courage to find new ways of thinking for new realities.

To boldly go where no Time Lord has gone before.

[The Master uses Casual Irritated Punch!]

[The Doctor shrugs it off!]

Well it did seem fitting. Do you still have the book? I'd be interested in reading it.

It's Dante's, so be careful with it.

[hands it to him]

I want it back in no less than an hour.

Yes, yes, I know.

[He sits so that he can have it open in his lap, already thumbing through it. New books = HURRAY.]

I do wonder if we could translate the theories into our own universe's laws.

Most of it seems adaptable. The issue of energy seems to be the primary issue, paired with the issue of the 'transmutation circles.'

[Still flipping through the book, idly paying attention to it as he speaks with the Master.]

The circles look rather ancient.

They remind me of Gallifreyan.

Mm, they do, actually, now that you mention it.

[He slips his glasses out of his pocket and puts them on. He'll actually pay attention to what he's reading now.]

Could you make your own circles? It's just, well, if we did adapt this to our own universe, given the similarities, we could already have a pre-set system, so to speak.

I'm surprised you'd consider giving our language that power.

[Mildly.] We're the only ones in the universe who know it.

It would make passing notes a bit awkward.

Well, it's not as though we would pick words we need. We could even make up ones. It just seems like the safest system.

We could use Old High Gallifreyan.

That probably would work well enough, yes. The idea would be limiting how many could use it while giving it a closer tie to our universe.

Do I sense Time Lords superiority in that?

Oh, of course not. Just stating the most logical course of action.

That only we should have this power. That only we should be able to shape the universe with our minds and our hands.

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