"Nor do I. These days." Of course, the Doctor has never been a god, if he might occasionally have been mistaken for a monster. "They called themselves a religious order, but they were no more than a collective bound together by their hatred of a man they never really understood. I was to be their weapon against him. It was my only purpose."
She isn't speaking purely of devotion. She does mean she was more a tool than a child.
Then she chuckles, a soft and vaguely amused sound. "But he was only a man. He isn't perfect, but he knows that." A little bit of fondness creeps into her voice. "Oh, he does have an ego. But he has the biggest hearts. Only they never bothered to listen to him. They never bothered to see how much he cares about the people he loves, about people he's never even met."
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"Nor do I. These days." Of course, the Doctor has never been a god, if he might occasionally have been mistaken for a monster. "They called themselves a religious order, but they were no more than a collective bound together by their hatred of a man they never really understood. I was to be their weapon against him. It was my only purpose."
She isn't speaking purely of devotion. She does mean she was more a tool than a child.
Then she chuckles, a soft and vaguely amused sound. "But he was only a man. He isn't perfect, but he knows that." A little bit of fondness creeps into her voice. "Oh, he does have an ego. But he has the biggest hearts. Only they never bothered to listen to him. They never bothered to see how much he cares about the people he loves, about people he's never even met."