The Doctor's face fell, a sadness came over him, but he pushed through it. "Her name was Leela, and she was from your future, a far off world, though her ancestors were from Earth. Her people were... regressed, savage. But she was very intelligent, grasping ideas you would have though beyond her."
He gestured to the door, the bedrooms beyond. "She traveled with me for a few years. And she was a warrior. As her appriciation of weapons shows. Just be careful of the thorns in the second drawer of her dresser. Look like small raptor claws. Their very poisonous at the tip. The weapons are trophys or gifts, and that rat tail... you can imagine the size of the rat. When she left, she only took her favorite knife and one of those Janus thorns. She left to settle down and marry, have a child." The sadness was back, and the pain overcame the joy of her memory.
She had married a Gallifreyan, Andred, and bore the first naturally concieved child on his homeworld in... almost 900 years. They had sent young Tiala to Leela's homeworld when the war started. To be raised by the Sevateem, her tribe. A primative life was better than none at all. But he didn't know if the girl still lived. After all, her father had been wiped from history. Leela and Andred had burned with his homeworld.
"She enjoyed a good fight, much as I tried to show her diplomacy was often better. I think she would have liked you."
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He gestured to the door, the bedrooms beyond. "She traveled with me for a few years. And she was a warrior. As her appriciation of weapons shows. Just be careful of the thorns in the second drawer of her dresser. Look like small raptor claws. Their very poisonous at the tip. The weapons are trophys or gifts, and that rat tail... you can imagine the size of the rat. When she left, she only took her favorite knife and one of those Janus thorns. She left to settle down and marry, have a child." The sadness was back, and the pain overcame the joy of her memory.
She had married a Gallifreyan, Andred, and bore the first naturally concieved child on his homeworld in... almost 900 years. They had sent young Tiala to Leela's homeworld when the war started. To be raised by the Sevateem, her tribe. A primative life was better than none at all. But he didn't know if the girl still lived. After all, her father had been wiped from history. Leela and Andred had burned with his homeworld.
"She enjoyed a good fight, much as I tried to show her diplomacy was often better. I think she would have liked you."
He stared into his barely touched coffee.