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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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Nah, Rose is enjoying it. "No, it's all right," Rose said obliviously, oops. "You're really strong enough for that? But it's okay, I could use the exercise. Burn off... whatevah. Might see if there's a train or trolley for the way back though. What memories were they?" Rose couldn't imagine giving up something like that, but then again, she'd never had powers, excepting as Bad Wolf... and she couldnt' remember Bad Wolf.... so... it was about even.

"Oh. They were memories of one of the youkai that helped shaped my and my sister's minds. The eqivalent of a mother but not really. Youkai aren't born. We manifest from nature. But she helped ensure that we could become fully sentient and rise above our aspects more quickly than we would otherwise. But I picked those memories since it was to take care of my sister and I know she would understand."

And before the feels became too strong. "Also, I don't know what a trolley is. It sounds like fun though! I've heard of a train. I've never ridden in one though. We just seem to have cars here. I've been in one a few times but it's so cramped."

"At least you got 'em back," Rose said quietly and squeezed her hand.

A small gasp. "You've never been on a train or trolley?" she snapped her fingers, pulled out her cell phone, and pulled up the map to find the closest one. "Okay! New adventure time. They're way more fun than cars! You can run around on the train, and stick your head out the windows on trolleys. Cars are just to get you places. Trains and trolleys are to enjoy the ride. Like... you ever been on a ship of some kind?"

Unfortunately, it seemed there weren't any trains or trolleys in Genessia. In any of the cities, really. Nova had one but it seemed like it was in the process of being phased out.

Koishi had stopped when Rose stopped to check her phone, tilting her head. There was a Tokyo sub-archway though so it wasn't a total loss.

"Miss? I haven't seen any trains around here though. There's one in a sub-archway but not in this city. And that sub-archway is a ways off. We're going to Fayren. There's other adventures there. Bright ones. Full of green and fire and gold-dust. You'll love it!"

Nooooo that's terrible!

Rose objects to this. They need to set up a lifesize toy train system, clearly.

"Yeah?" a beam, "Okay okay," a laugh. "Sounds gorgeous."

Koishi hurried Rose along, babbling the whole way about various things and often making big motions in the air. She had so much energy! It was hard to imagine how she did it. Eventually though they came upon the Fayren archway, Koishi passing through without hesitation.

On the other side what had once been busy streets and buildings was now nothing but nature overlooking an old, almost medieval looking town by the water. And beyond it was more wilderness and even a mountain range. Even the air was different.

"This is Fayren, Miss. It's really big and grand and I love it!"

Rose is thrilled. She hasn't gotten to travel with anyone in ages and usually she's the bubbly one trying to keep everyone from being depressed and still enthusiastic.

"It's gorgeous!!" Especially after cyberman dystopias and gritty cityscapes. "Ahhhh I have to remember to show my friend, he'll love this!" Rose bounced up and down on the balls of her feet.

"I know, isn't it?" And the little youkai was somewhat... upside-down. "I hope your friend likes it. Fayren is such a nice place. There are all sorts of things here like dragons and magic and it's all really neat, Miss."

Neat was one way of putting it.

Again, Rose's hand was grabbed, the little youkai righting herself before resuming the dragging along. "But exploring the surface isn't important right now. Old hell is this way. That's where Chireden and my sister are. And all of the pets. And the oni too. It's pretty great. I bet you'll love it. But don't go wandering since outside of Chireiden it's really dark and really cold and really dangerous if you wander too far."

"Dragons?! He'll love it." Rose nodded and practically skipped, barely needing to be dragged, just running along cheerfully. "Got it! And yeah, makes sense. Like the black hole, right?"

Koishi sort of paused, turning a little bit to look at Rose. She tilted her head. "Black hole? We have a subterranean sun but no black holes. That would be bad. Then the heat and light wouldn't be able to escape and old hell would be even more chilly and dark."

This was a different hell after all. One that doesn't contain a slightly disappointing rawr monster after building it up so beautifully the episode before.

"It's this way!" Koishi was dragging her faster now, heading toward the entrance to the waterways. "We have to go through some tunnels. That's where the subarchway is so fewer people bother big sis. She gets headaches really easily in crowds if I'm not there to block some of the psychic noise."

"Yeah that's where new Hell relocates to, I guess," Rose nodded. "Krop Tor."

Rose frowned slightly, "Huh, that's almost... ironic. My friend has the reverse problem. He gets a little freaked out when there's not enough psychic energies flowing around, yeah?"

"... I dunno where Krop Tor is!" Koishi continued to drag Rose along. The tunnels were dark save for some bio-luminescent lichen but she seemed to know where she was going. Perhaps she could see in the dark?

"Oh? That's really strange! What kind of creature has a problem like that? Unless it's not a need and he just really likes the whole background noise thing."

"A black hole," Rose explained quietly.

Rose clucked her tongue quietly. Explaining the Doctor was going to take a lot more than just a single meeting. "Yeah, something like that," she shrugged, simply trusting Koishi to know the way. "But it's more like..." She couldn't really explain with the ood. Or other aliens, or feeling connected to the life force of hundreds of millions of people, she didn't really understand it herself. "Being blinded, yeah?" Best way she could think of to explain it.

Koishi led rose to a newly replaced metal door, a bit of light leaking out from under it. Upon pulling it open revealed the sub-archway to chireiden against the far left wall. It was framed with jagged red metal, the silhouette of a massive building faintly visible through it... Made slightly less intimidating by the fact several lights were clearly on.

Someone was also in the process of turning the room leading to the shimmering portal into something far more welcoming than the rest of the waterways. New(ish) concrete had even been laid down. Several work lamps had been set up, half illuminating the room and running off of a power cable that led through the archway.

"Blinded?" Rose's comment actually made the little youkai turn around, tilting her head slightly. "Literally or figuratively? Points of the world that ripple and bounce around the dark. Both in confines and in emptiness. Is that what it's like? Or is the silence so deafening that it grates and chews at a buckling foundation? For your friend, I mean. Being psychically blinded is something I really understand Miss."

Her third eye had settled in her hands, Koishi holding it up. It was slightly open, the surface frosted over. The cataract was actually thicker in a line across the lens. A scar? "Maybe you could ask your friend if it's like drowning. Swimming through endless tunnels and choices. At first, at least. Until you stop breathing entirely. Then things get really interesting!"

She tilted her hat up, her thousand watt grin never faltering. "Especially when you realize you never needed to breathe in the first place. It's sad, but true."

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Srry for lateness.

/later!!!

I love The Impossible Planet. Though my fav ep is Midnight

Midnight is great but you're the first person I've met who even liked it :o

The pacing and emotion were so good tho!

/nod/ I think most people don't like how intense it is XD

But the intensity is what makes it great.