He turned harshly from the device he’d been frantically building. “Don’t tell me what I don’t need to do. You do that far too often.”
"This is for your sake, Master. Please. Please, just listen -“ He edged a little closer. If he could just take the Master by surprise, he might be able to blast the thing out of his hands - the damage already done wouldn’t be reversed, but at the very least he could try and talk him down. “This is for both of our sakes.”
The man scoffed, frowned again, and quickly turned away from the Time Lord to continue his rushed task of twisting wires together. The little machine was a weapon that could easily wipe out the memories of everyone within a sixty mile radius—Time Lords included if he made any mistakes. "Listen to you prattle on some more about why I'm wrong?" He probably could have been taken by surprise; he wasn't exactly 'feeling focused.'









