For the longest time I was the last of my kind. [ Well, he believed that he was, anyway. He'd believed that Gallifrey had been destroyed, and along with it, his people.
Gallifrey has always had a complicated and violent history, and by the end of the Time War, the Doctor had run off ... become a renegade of sorts; just him and the blue police box he travels with. ] And humans, well — they only live so long, as you know.
[ The Doctor offers her a mild shrug. It's clear that revealing his own history isn't something he's particularly comfortable with. ]
Space is very big and there's no shortage of planets to visit, things to see, and sometimes I'd find myself traveling on my own. It's not so bad, I still have my TARDIS, but.
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Gallifrey has always had a complicated and violent history, and by the end of the Time War, the Doctor had run off ... become a renegade of sorts; just him and the blue police box he travels with. ] And humans, well — they only live so long, as you know.
[ The Doctor offers her a mild shrug. It's clear that revealing his own history isn't something he's particularly comfortable with. ]
Space is very big and there's no shortage of planets to visit, things to see, and sometimes I'd find myself traveling on my own. It's not so bad, I still have my TARDIS, but.
[ Anyway.
He smiles now. ]
These others? Are they as old as you are?