* THEY’RE IN DEEP TROUBLE, how can they not be? their lives have entered the stage where comfort and lies overlap, making them interchangeable && all the more intoxicating. there’s no relief in awareness, in the constant loss, there’s no comfort in sleep when nightmares come knocking. the most they can do is keep themselves busy and pretend that someday, somehow, they’re going to trip over something capable of making them feel less lonely in the vast universe. ❝ I’ve never been one for honey sweetened lies. ❞ romana states plainly, boots clanking as she jumps down from the top platform of her tardis, feet hitting on the wooden floor and straightening herself out. still she holds it out, a leather bound book, freshly finished - gallifreyan writing carefully inked on each soft page. ❝ a few poems are missing, they were too burnt in the copy I found to transfer them. ❞ still, she’s moderately certain it’s the book lady mentioned, barely waiting for it to be taken before she walks on the glass covered streams to her console.
❝ I hope the piece of home brings you some comfort. I would... appreciate it, if you weren’t to mention to the doctor my location. for a while. my TARDIS still needs repairs and I’m not ready for that specific reunion. ❞ for a moment, just a moment, there’s something akin to vulnerability in her tone. keeping her face out of sight as she bows her head over the controls, curls shielding her from the other’s gaze. ❝ we both know I’m not harming anyone. just writing up salvaged literature in my little corner of the galaxy. ❞