Scaribble Champion

[gallifreyborn]

"Archiving." The archivist replied simply. She was aware of the intruders movement, but didn't react to it outwardly. She continued to feign 'reading', but processed none of the content within the archive.

[morethaniknew]

This being a pocket dimension was beginning to seem more likely with every scan the Doctor did. Except the way Romana was acting was... off, to say the least. Maybe she was traumatized, maybe time flowed differently here and it hadn't been long since the War, but...

The Doctor snatched the book off the table and sniffed it before poking her tongue out to taste the page and then the spine.

[gallifreyborn]

The words were neither question nor demand. A secret third thing that the archivist couldn't quite work out. She also wasn't sure whether to tell her anything. She wasn't sure how she was supposed to respond to someone who wasn't the Lord President Eternal in general. This situation was entirely out of her norm.

"I am fulfilling my duty." She eventually said. It was the most neutral answer that she could think of; the one least likely to inspire anger from either the intruder or the Lord President Eternal.

[morethaniknew]

The Doctor managed to not make a snarky comment about Romana fulfilling duties, and her own thoughts on the sort of things the other Time Lord likely considered duties, though only just.

"What sort of duties?" she asked, moving to scan one of the books. Knowing what it was made out of could help confirm if this was a pocket dimension, after all.

[gallifreyborn]

The archivist was acutely aware that the intruder was scanning her with some form of sonic device. She didn't outwardly react, her gaze locked on the archive before her, but most of her attention was focused on her. Was she here with authorisation of the President...? She wasn't sure why he would permit another to enter the archives, but it wasn't her place to question his judgement.

Moments passed by. She considered her options as she continued to demurely stare down at the archive.

Finally, she spoke, her voice quiet and emotionless. "May I help you?"

[morethaniknew]

The sonic certainly was saying that this was the same Romana she'd travelled with, the very one who'd spent a good century in her TARDIS.

That was... something. Still, the sonic could be fooled, possibly. And she wasn't very inclined to trust anyone who wore the face of an old friend, not after O.

"Mm, you could explain why you're in a pocket dimension," she suggested casually, demeanor relaxed even as her attention was laser-focused on maybe-Romana.

[gallifreyborn]

The archivist wondered, in the detached way that had become characteristic of her, if the Lord President had merely regenerated. The years that she had spent serving him had numbed her natural ability to recognise others of her kind, even her Lord President, but... nothing about the woman struck her as particularly like him.

Her sense of fashion, for one. Those clothes were certainly not befitting of the President of the Time Lords. They looked like something one would find on some Level Five backwater... and that wasn't even taking into account the general way that she held herself. She didn't possess even an ounce of the Lord President Eternal's commanding presence.

But why was she here? How was she here? He was the only one with the authority to enter the archives. That was how it had always been. But she couldn't deny the evidence of her own eyes... but...

Without a word, the archivist returned her gaze to the archive she had been studying before the intrusion. She had her duty. There were to be no interruptions.

[morethaniknew]

The Doctor stopped looking around when she saw a very familiar face, albeit one she hadn't seen in lifetimes. One she hadn't known survived the Time War or destruction of Gallifrey at all.

Could she have? The Doctor took out her sonic and began scanning her without so much as a by-your-leave. It was, she supposed, theoretically possible. If Romana had been in a pocket dimension the entire time, similar to Gallifrey itself for a good few thousands of years after the War (according to her personal timeline). A pocket dimension might also explain the ease with which the TARDIS had gotten here- that wasn't nearly as difficult as a properly separate one. There wasn't even that much smoke in the console room, there had been way more after her last attempt.

But it also felt... a little too convenient, that she'd somehow end up in a pocket dimension with someone she considered... well, hopefully still a friend. Even if their last few interactions had been... strained. The Doctor wasn't nearly so inclined to fight about such things as she once had been, though.

Thus the scan.

[gallifreyborn]

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Everything in the archivists world was predictable and almost unchangeing. The temperature was level. There was no air current. The floors, ceiling, walls, and even the bookshelves themselves were pure white. Even the books themselves were all exactly the same size, as they existed to be representations of fountains of knowledge, rather than to serve a purpose as actual books.

Sometimes, things changed, but only when the Lord President deigned to visit.

In her younger ( years? she supposed so, but it was really just a guess ), the archivist had lived for his visits, but she had grown past this, now. Of course, she was still honoured that he would take the time from his busy life to visit her, but she had her own duty, and her time couldn't be wasted wondering when he would next come to the archives.

This perpetual sameness was all that the archivist had ever known. That was why she froze in place when she turned and saw an unfamiliar woman standing in the middle of the archives.

[morethaniknew]

Frankly, the Doctor knew that she'd been pushing the TARDIS far more than she ought to have been. But after what the Master had told her, how could she not? For a while after he'd told her, she'd made sure to spend every minute with her friends, ensuring she wouldn't have the time to dwell on it.

Then she'd been imprisoned for a few decades and been forced to dwell on said thoughts.

So maybe now she was avoiding picking Yaz up for as long as possible so she could make detours to do research, leaving her at home for longer and longer periods each time she dropped her off at home. It was fine. What Yaz didn't know wouldn't hurt her. It would all be the same amount of time to her.

Issue was, pushing the TARDIS into another dimension had... not exactly been her full intention, though she also couldn't honestly say that it hadn't been. She winced and patted the wall of her ship, taking a step out- it would be smartest to try and get out of it quickly first, but...

Maybe there would be answers here. She hoped.

Though, given she seemed to have stepped into a room full of books, perhaps not. Helpful as they could be, she rather doubted she'd have just so happened to have landed somewhere that se came from- wherever that may be- and in a room with books that would somehow explain to her just what had happened to result in her being alone and in another dimension to begin with.

[morethaniknew]

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[morethaniknew]

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