No, it isn't. by
The Reader, DIC
on 2013-05-16 19:09:00 UTC
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And that's where I come in, I'm afraid. I do apologize for the late response, but it took rather a while for your original message to come through--something about timelines, I believe? The rest of the report was unintelligible. I think perhaps my TARDIS needs to spend some time in DoSAT for repairs; she hasn't exactly had the easiest time of things.
I do understand your viewpoint, believe me. What we had become by the end...well, I was still there by the middle of the end, and it wasn't very fun, to say the least. I won't tell you that I believe myself to be any different; I believe that I have the potential to become just like them, as do we all--yourself included, Agent Morgan, if you'll forgive me for saying so. That's actually what made me leave the Academy, and eventually Gallifrey itself, in the first place.
I don't have any insurance against becoming like the rest of us did, and that terrifies me more than the Nightmare Child did, to be honest. What I do have, though, is a monitoring system in my TARDIS, and a partner who knows what to look out for. And unless you want to stand by with a gun as well, then I don't think there's much more to be done.
If it helps, I'm only about 120 years old, and left the Academy before I absorbed too much propaganda. And, well, there are other Time Lords in HQ who haven't followed the rest of the Time Lords into insanity; perhaps there's hope for us.
-Reader
There's my partner. by
The Disentangler, DIC
on 2013-05-12 22:05:00 UTC
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But he and I went to the Academy roughly around the time the Doctor was there, so we're actually older than you. I think it might be the younger ones you'd want to redirect your paranoia to.
And speaking of which, I think I picked up on the scanner once that there was another Gallifrey-born Time Lord in HQ aside from you, me, the Agent, and the Fisherman. The whole temporal-spatial anomaly-plus-TARDIS thing gave it away.
-Dis