{Thirty-five (63)} &diams Suddenly that isn't true There's another avenue Beckoning the great divide

[burnt_orangesky]

In the spirit of full disclosure which seems to have overtaken us all, my full name is Romanadvoratrelundar, Romana for short. I hail from a world known as Gallifrey; my people are known as the Time Lords.

While I cannot stay here, I am not entirely certain where I should go. [Small pause.] Due to circumstances I am afraid I cannot divulge, going back to my homeworld is not currently an option. It may never be.

I shall have to think about it.

To those who have been my friends in the two years I have made my home here: thank you. I cannot express how much your friendship has meant to me, and continues to mean to me. And I can promise you this: no matter where you choose to go, back to your homes or staying here, I will be able to visit you. My people are able to cross time, space, and dimensions, with the help of technology we have invented. So we needn't loose touch, no matter what else happens.

-Romana

Comments

[burnt_orangesky]

It is a time machine, yes. It also travels through space, if you want to stay in the same time, relatively speaking. The Doctor's TARDIS happens to look like a phone booth on Earth, but that is simply because he refuses to fix the fused circuits.

My people are not immortal, but I suppose we may as well be when compared to the Human life-span.

[live_ringer]

If it controls both time and space when you travel, I assume that makes for conveniently short trips? And... a phone booth? Really? Well, if nothing else, I suppose it'd make decent camouflage as a historical element. Sounds a touch cramped, though.

Hah, it feels like that's the case with most non-human life-spans. Granted, that might be my uniquely human perspective talking.

[burnt_orangesky]

It can do, but there is that saying about short cuts making long delays. And the Doctor is bound to be distracted by anywhere interesting that we happen to land, even if it is not our true destination.

You would think so, but that is another Time Lord trick--it is bigger on the inside. A whole world has been fitted inside something that looks like it's not got room for more than two people at a time, if they are quite good friends.

Not all; Time Lords are in the minority, as it happens. There are several races whose life-spans are significantly shorter than yours, and a few whose life-spans are quite a bit longer, but the majority fall close to your range.

[live_ringer]

Would he be the sort that tourist traps are made for? Or is it just the overabundance of truly interesting places a person runs into when covering that much ground?

...Huh. Well, that is a neat little trick. Must make storage a breeze.

Now, that sort of variety much closer to what I would expect amongst a few galaxies of sapient species. I suppose I've just run into the more long-lived sort in Edensphere. Not that I mind, since those I know that are capable of living a while are generally people I like.

[burnt_orangesky]

A bit of both, really. And it does--but then you get truly odd things, like a whole room devoted to boots. That much space added to our long life spans... I would not be at all surprised if there are a whole set of rooms somewhere in the TARDIS he has completely forgotten about.

Oh yes? I was not aware of anyone with a long lifespan, besides the Doctor and myself.

[live_ringer]

Is the boot room... intentional? Like, say, a souvenir room that came from visiting a world-of-boots? Or does it just appear?

Well, you hear stories here and there. Then again, considering we were all operating off of morsels of information, I'm not entirely sure how many were truly that long lived or if some just got the wrong impression.

[burnt_orangesky]

I have never had the opportunity to ask. It could be that he simply hates to throw things away.

There is that. I suppose the only way to know for sure is to ask them again, now that they remember their pasts.

[live_ringer]

Like hoarding? I hear there are interventions for that.

True enough.

[burnt_orangesky]

More like there is so much space he never has to. Or perhaps he forgets where he puts things, I have never been certain.

[live_ringer]

If you had endless space to work with it would be very easy to lose things. You'd practically need a map.

[burnt_orangesky]

He insists that he does not, but it might help with the losing rooms issue.

[live_ringer]

Maybe just some of those little 'You Are Here" stands here and there.

[burnt_orangesky]

Perhaps, but when the rooms get rearranged that might render the markers rather obsolete.

[live_ringer]

Then you can give directions like older people do. "Go over to where the room of gilded umbrellas used to be and take a left."