TLV 9 - Video

[bodilesswarrior]

[There's something undeniably wistful about Barbara's smile.]

I was a knight for Halloween, once. Never thought I'd end up as the real thing.

[She shakes her head, casting it all aside. She won't dwell on how it felt to run again.]

Is everyone accounted for?

[Private to the Admiral]

I'd like a key to the engine room.

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[bodilesswarrior]

[Barbara's voice softens, a little.]

No, Davros, I don't think so.

Sometimes, when we land on these worlds, some of us fall overboard and become part of them. It's how I became a knight.

What do you remember?

[dalekemperor]

I have heard of this phenomenon.

It feels, now, like an hallucination or a very absorbing dream. I do recall falling, though the impetus thereof is something I do not recall.

[And, interestingly enough, his inherent paranoia doesn't leap on that fact--anyone could have worked up a mighty shove and sent him over the side of the ship, but it doesn't seem to connect with the paranoid parts of his mind... at least not right now. He's far too preoccupied with other parts of the experience.]

I recall... I believe they call it 'alchemy?' Yes. I...

[Here he stops and even though it can't be seen, he looks down at his remaining hand.] I was not as... physically limited as I am, now, I could....

[O HAI THAR SUBJECT CHANGE.]

How does this happen? Is it an alternate reality?

[bodilesswarrior]

[Barbara's gaze is quietly understanding, before she goes along with the subject shift.]

It's hard to say. They could be the lives we would have had on this world, if we were born there. They could be lives that really exist, which we shared for a while. Or they could just be facsimiles; a way to absorb us into the fabric of it, until the ship pulls us out again.