Thirty Nine - Spam as a Time Lord

[bob_fraser_rcmp]

[Bob spent the first day just lying on his bed, reviewing probabilities of things like his desk or chair, what they were likely to do and how. He felt the presences of all the people on the barge and how broken and sore they were, no wonder they lashed out, though he bounced off their minds rather than probed into them.

He lacked the discipline of a trained telepath, but that didn't mean that his mind wasn't disciplined at all. He cared with a deepness and his mother drilled into him what was right and honourable and heroic and that meant respecting each and every one.

He placed his hands on his hearts, listening to their beating.

Eventually, slowly, he rose, moving across his cabin, seeing how the room changed according to his perspective as if he'd never been in this cabin before.

He decided to take a walk, a slow one across that took him across the entire Barge.]


[OOC: Bob is a Time Lord for the flood, feel free to bump into him.]

Comments

[shortsightedlove]

I don't? [Don't tell me it'll become even worse.]

You'd be surprised. [Not explaining Time Lord things to you :|]

[bob_fraser_rcmp]

Of course, you don't! You're a billion years old, we only last the century if we're lucky.

Surprise me then.

[shortsightedlove]

I know that.

And I'd rather not.

[bob_fraser_rcmp]

Logically, you do. But not emotionally. You don't know what it means.

Come on.

[shortsightedlove]

We did not always have regeneration. That is something I invented, as well.

You wouldn't understand, anyway.

[bob_fraser_rcmp]

That was a long time ago.

You'll never know.

[shortsightedlove]

That doesn't mean I don't remember it.

[Fine. Fine, get your explanation, in needlessly scientific terms and purposefully overcomplicated.]

[bob_fraser_rcmp]

It does mean that you have a skewed view of it, subject to your experience of removing that barrier.

[Bob's the son of a travelling librarian, Rassilon, your efforts are in vain.] Thank you kindly.

[shortsightedlove]

Just more reason not to like being human.

[Curses! Foiled again.]

[bob_fraser_rcmp]

Facing mortality?

[shortsightedlove]

Having to put up with such a fragile body. [He doesn't have any problems with being mortal, why would you think that...]

[bob_fraser_rcmp]

You could be sick. [So it could be worse.]

[shortsightedlove]

And I should be thankful that is not the case?

[bob_fraser_rcmp]

Can you find a human that isn't?

[shortsightedlove]

So you are always grateful for that?

[bob_fraser_rcmp]

Oh, yes. We have a saying 'your health is your wealth'.

[shortsightedlove]

Well, I am glad I don't have to put up with such things any more.

[bob_fraser_rcmp]

Well, you do here.

[shortsightedlove]

Only until the flood is over. And even should something happen during that time, death is hardly permanent on this ship.

[bob_fraser_rcmp]

Most floods turn do people into humans though.

[shortsightedlove]

Now you exaggerate. Ports tend to do that more and even then the same rules still apply.

[bob_fraser_rcmp]

Do you find it wearisome: eternal life?

[shortsightedlove]

Of course not.

[bob_fraser_rcmp]

Life is the most tiring thing there is, there's no 'of course not' about it.

[shortsightedlove]

Not for me. I'm not weary of it at all.