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[damn-time-ring.livejournal.com]

[night has long since settled over Gallifrey and yet he doesn't retire. instead, he leaves his rooms and makes his way to gardens in his section of the residential quarters. there, amongst several other Gallifreyan flora planted there, are several silver-leafed cadenwood trees, their leaves glittering and reflecting a warm burnt orange and red, offset by the few lights still left on in nearby quarters. by his watch, he has an hour before the first sun starts to rise up over the Mountain of Solace. he settles himself against the base of the tree, deciding not to have a seat on one of the nearby sofas. no doubt he'll be joined by others wishing to watch the sunrise, but most Time Lords wait for the second sun to rise. he, selfishly, prefers to watch both.

while he waits, his thoughts return to the Plane and he mulls over his previous explorations and encounters there. too many things--too many new things--for this stuffy Time Lord.

and then there's that forest. what would his beloved cadenwood trees look like there without the magnificence of Kasterboran suns? no doubt they'd still overshadow the ones there in their silvery brilliance, but would some of their magic be lost?

to test this, he enters the Plane, bringing the one tree with him. unfortunately, he isn't anywhere near the forest, though he can see it in the distance--but still... he glances up at the silver leaves now twinkling in the light of the millions upon millions of stars in that place and grins. smugly, of course.]

Better than that forest any day! Just as I thought it would be.

Comments

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

If the entire point of the plan is to kill him...

[damn-time-ring.livejournal.com]

[...you make no damn sense, Master.] Why is that your ultimate goal?

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

[it gets worse]

Oh, it isn't. I don't want to kill him.

[damn-time-ring.livejournal.com]

[it really did.] But you just said you did.

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

I said that if that's the point of the plan, then it's logical to wait for him. I never said it was the point of the plan, or that if it was, I wanted him dead.

[damn-time-ring.livejournal.com]

[pinches the bridge of his nose] Do you do this normally just so you can combat with the Doctor?

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

No. What do you take me for, Romana? And at any rate, it's more like, oh, I don't know, Spore meets Risk with a healthy dose of backgammon, these days.

[damn-time-ring.livejournal.com]

No, you don't have a K-9 unit to consult your every move.

...More Earth euphemisms? [sighs. he's going to need a dictionary of some kind talking to this one.]

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

So sorry to play on your ignorance, Straxus.

[damn-time-ring.livejournal.com]

[he shrugs] Perhaps you're going native.

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

Not in a thousand regenerations.

[damn-time-ring.livejournal.com]

And yet you know so many cultural references pertaining to the planet in question.

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

All that proves is your ignorance.

[damn-time-ring.livejournal.com]

Oh, like I care about that little backwater planet...

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

A backwater planet that's been in more conflicts vital to the integrity of spacetime than half the universe combined, thanks to our mutual acquaintance the Doctor.

[damn-time-ring.livejournal.com]

No doubt facilitated by his very presence. He attracts trouble just as well as he can run into it.

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

You lot should get him executed for that one of these times. Successfully, I mean.

[damn-time-ring.livejournal.com]

And we shouldn't for all that you've done? [then again, the Master IS dead in his time right now...]

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

Even a pet of the High Council should know an impossibility when he sees it.

[damn-time-ring.livejournal.com]

[excuse him while he resists rolling his eyes.] Why yes, I'm looking at one right now.

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

What, is Jack behind me?

[damn-time-ring.livejournal.com]

[as he hasn't yet met Jack yet technically...] Who?

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

You'll figure it out eventually.

[damn-time-ring.livejournal.com]

Right...

So why did you want one of these cadenwood trees? You never said.

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

Can't you put the clues together and build a story from them?