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[damn-time-ring.livejournal.com]

[oh look, it's a wild Straxus back on the Plane, sans gloves and that cap, and is currently wandering around aimlessly, having already taken a little stroll through the forest and is on his way to...something. he doesn't wander because he's lost but because there's so much to see and currently, he's stopped in his tracks and thinking of where to go next.

the Plane's free from Gallifrey's eyes, and most assuredly from the CIA and the High Council--he's been busy discreetly checking his sources for such a thing in the reports--and such a degree of, well, he hesitates to use the word "freedom" because really, he loves his people and his world. but it's a change and if there's something the general populace of Time Lords don't adapt well to, it's change.

of course, the downside of the lack of surveillance on the Plane is that no one will ever believe him about the Doctor surviving his fall, Omega being alive, or that the Master is for that matter (not that he's bothered to tell anybody, not even Coordinator Bulek) and boy, is he still smarting from that last encounter with that particular renegade Time Lord. still, that doesn't mean he's going to avoid the Plane because of one lunatic.

oddly enough...he rather likes the place.]

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[savagestime.livejournal.com]

[it doesn't. Smiling, the Master watches Straxus walk away]

[damn-time-ring.livejournal.com]

[after a few minutes of anticipating the Master's arrival, admittedly walking at a rather brisk pace, he slows down a little, and relaxes slightly. he mutters under his breath:] That was too simple...

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

[The Master promptly appears right in front of Straxus]

I've gotten very good at manipulating my movement on this place, don't you think?

[damn-time-ring.livejournal.com]

[stamps his foot, infuriated] Will you stop doing that?! [that would be his way of saying, "Yes, I can see you have."]

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

Ahh, petulant behaviour. I love that about Citadel-dwellers, too.

[damn-time-ring.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't exactly "dwell" anywhere else, not when I'm required in the Citadel.

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

[a scoff]

Required robes and required living for a required job. The Academy produced another star Time Lord with you, didn't it? Everything a stagnant planet could ask for.

[damn-time-ring.livejournal.com]

[straightens] And yet, the Academy somehow produced you as well.

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

We were a bad year. Or I was always that way. Could've been the Untempered Schism. Or perhaps it was a deal made with Sister Death?

I enjoy collecting the theories.

[damn-time-ring.livejournal.com]

...What do you want?

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

All the other Time Lords here are special. Unique. They're among the handful of Time Lords who ever deserved the title. You're just an average, ordinary Time Lord.

I want to watch you and remember everything I won't allow my Gallifrey to be.

[damn-time-ring.livejournal.com]

By your definition, I'm the only one of me here, so that would make me unique as well. Certainly more so than several versions of the Doctor or even yourself. I fulfil the very definition of what it means to be a Time Lord.

And you shall never have Gallifrey. Many of tried, and none have ever succeeded.

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

You're a unique copy of yourself, not unique among your species. As for Time Lord, I'd like to see you do some lording over time that doesn't just involve staring at it.

Oh, that's not a problem in my time.

[damn-time-ring.livejournal.com]

I've...had to take a more active role in certain events. What I do was and has been vital to the survival of the Time Lords.

[and he chooses not to address that last statement. better he didn't ask for an explanation.]

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

[a bit of a snort at 'survival of the Time Lords']

Yes, well done there.

[damn-time-ring.livejournal.com]

[bristles slightly] I don't need you critiquing my job.

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

I wonder what would happen if I told you? Would you fight fate, or do everything in your power to preserve the timeline?

[damn-time-ring.livejournal.com]

[stares, hiding the fact that that unsettles him] You would have to factor in whether I could believe you or not.

[and this is him starting to walk away again]

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

[he doesn't follow, but he lets his voice carry]

Oh, you'd believe me. You'd feel the truth in between your hearts. But I know that lesser species like to use denial to protect them from making terrible decisions.

[damn-time-ring.livejournal.com]

[whirls right around.] Don't compare me to them! I don't need any sort of defence mechanism to protect me.

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

Then are running away?

[damn-time-ring.livejournal.com]

I'm merely getting away from you.

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

Straxus. I've a question for you. When they brought you in front of the Untempered Schism, what did you do?

[damn-time-ring.livejournal.com]

[quietly] ...I'd rather not say.

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

No, of course not. And why would I trust whatever you'd say as the truth?