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Hey so, bit of a weird question. Anyone here ever heard of Torchwood, and could maybe point me how to get back to contacting the local branch? That'd be really handy, yeah?

Year and star system coordinates would also be fantastic, but I'm not holdin' my breath waitin'.

[Bites her bottom lip in thought.]

[She doesn't even know which universe this is. Much less how she got here without a dimension cannon or where everyone she was with went. Maybe they're here. But then maybe even saying their name depending on the universe is dangerous. Luckily, she's had 5+ years (give or take for literal dimension rewinds and time in the vortex) of experience in learning how to do codes.]

Here's a fairytale you've probably never heard before.

Once upon a time there was a big bad wolf. She wandered a city of metal filled with metal men. [Too dangerous to even say the world cyberman until she learned more!] She thought she was on a mission to hunt down her lost prince. But she was actually on a mission to find home. Bit like Dorothy from Wizard of Oz if you know it. And one day she met a man who wasn't a prince at all. He was a very brainy professor. There was even another man who started off as a mouse but turned into a lion full of courage, saving worlds he never even knew existed. And a really flirty captain who was probably too pretty for his own good. They weren't off to find a wizard. Just a blue box.

The big bad wolf ran away from home and her pack over and over and over again, but no matter how many times she ran, and how many new friends she made or which universe she fell into, something was always calling her back. 'Pparently you can't escape your family that easily. That or the Big Bad Wolf's mum was seriously terrifying and would fight a werewolf for diamonds and totally win.

Thanks for listening, Ta!

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A dream?

My home is... in the blue box. [Quiet.]

Yes. It's one I had since I was a young child. Always on my birthday lights would appear, I've always wanted to go and see them.

A blue box? [Rapunzel seems a little puzzled. She lives in a blue box? Her thoughts of what that is is probably not the same.]

Must be uncomfortable.

Sounces nice. Didja find 'em?

[Laughs and shakes her head, remembering what Jack was saying when they were in Cardiff.] Nah. It's bigger on the inside. Magic blue box. It's even got a swimming pool in the library.

No, before I arrived here I had just left to go. But never got there.

[Which makes figuring out when her birthday would be here rather hard.]

O-Oh! Are all magic blue boxes like that?

Maybe you can find a set here instead? Or do they have to be those specific ones?

[Shrugs!] Beats me. I'm pretty sure it's the only one of it's kind, so it's a tough question.

It had to be those ones, I mean...I guess seeing any on my birthday would be nice, but only then I guess.

[She doesn't really know.]

Okay, so since it's the only one that would be no, all aren't like that because there is only one. Though would that actually mean yes because of that...

Duly noted.

[Laughs and grins.] Yeah exactly. Shrodinger's box. Um, that's a reference to a test that you can't scientifically know something about the contents of a box until you open it to look inside. [... She'll refraain from explaining the part about it being whether a cat in the box is dead or alive. Since... yeah. That's morbid.]

[She nodded slightly before smiling.]

Thank you for explaining that to me. I really wouldn't have known about that. So if you don't look inside you won't know the answer... I think I get it.

Yeah. No worries, I wouldn't have gotten the reference a few years ago either.

My Dad's an inventor though and the things I deal with are pretty similar now.

Inventor? That's someone who creates things... Right?

Yup!

Schrodinger's Box basically. You never know what his inventions are capable of until you test them out. That was my favorite job at Torchwood. Tryin' weird stuff out to make sure it was safe.

So you worked with inventers back home?

Mm! My father.

He wasn't the only one, he had a lot of others with him, but he owned the company. A few of them actually.

That sounds pretty neat. I mean it sounds like it's good anyway.

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