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The Doctor (notginger) wrote in mirage_rpg,
@ 2008-07-22 23:51:00

Entry tags:

complete, day 8, katara, the doctor

Who? The Doctor & Katara
Where? The restaurant.
When? Evening.
What? The attempted teaching of science/technology.
Rating G, probably.
Status Complete.

After barely managing to successfully order a room-service brunch through a lot of giggling, the Doctor had decided that he would venture down to the restaurant to collect them something for dinner rather than go through another one-ended conversation with a golem on the phone. It was just easier when they could at least nod a confirmation to him. So, he had dressed in his suit trousers and a white shirt with the sleeves rolled up, deciding to leave off the tie and suit jacket due to the change in resort. Finally, the planet was making him give up on the full suit, which was something of a miracle, although Rose's relaxing influence might have had something to do with it. He no longer felt the need to use his suit as a protective shield, stopping anyone from getting too close.

He headed into the restaurant, picked up a menu and ordered them some pasta to go - it felt like it was way too hot for chips, but he was sure Rose would disagree, so he ordered a portion of them as well, and headed over to a nearby table to wait for his order to cook. He fished Rose's mobile phone from his pocket; he'd promised to take a look at it and see what he could do about it's inability to call any other planet. He pulled the back off and examined the device he'd inserted into it to give her universal roaming; perhaps if he just tried to increase the signal even further he might get somewhere. He took his sonic screwdriver from his pocket; this was exactly why he needed the suit jacket, carrying everything in his trouser pockets was a little awkward. He pressed the tip against the roaming device inside the phone and turned the screwdriver on. It emitted a blue light, and gave an electronic sound, something like a mixture between TV static and a dial-up internet connection. He moved the blue tip along the edges of device, concentrating hard as the phone started to heat up in his hand. He doubted that the signal was the problem, but it was worth a try nonetheless.

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k_waterbender
2008-07-29 08:02 pm UTC (link)

“That might be best.” Katara said, when the man mentioned not telling her about the email abilities. It would be cruel to let another person know you could read your messages, but you couldn’t ever reply to them, to let others know you’re safe and sound and trying to find a way back.

The calm smile on the waterbender’s face faltered when she noted his reaction to her bending, as if it were something terrible. Maybe he was just thoroughly surprised, and it wasn’t that he thought what she did was so bad.

A chuckle left her lips at the mention of magick. “No. It’s not magick, it’s waterbending. The only magick I’ve seen comes from magicians who perform in front of others on stage. I suppose that’s not quite real magick. Look at what I’m doing, though. The water doesn’t move unless I move with it.” Katara moved her hand circularly around the stream of water, so it began to form into a sphere of sorts. “If I don’t move, it stays as it is, but if I do move, it moves with me. I think only the spirits are capable of true magick.” She allowed the water to stream back into her water skin, and she replaced the stopper. “I can bend the water in anything I want now. When I began I could only do simple moves. I found a couple masters who taught me their ways, though.”

Katara tried hard to keep herself from bursting into true laughter. All that left her was a small snicker. “I’m very human. I just don’t know that I’m from the same world as everyone else here. Most people seem to be from Earth, but my world never really had a name. We simply named the four nations and the cities and villages within them.”

Her mind spun for a moment as he tried explaining how it could work, how it had worked back on Earth, but she thought she understood to some small extent. “Wow. That’s… amazing…” Then a thought occurred to her. “You’ve lived for five billion years?” The idea of it was absolutely crazy, but obviously anything was possible beyond what one mind knew and understood.

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notginger
2008-07-30 01:56 pm UTC (link)

The Doctor tried to pull himself together, rather embarrassed at his slight over-reaction. He really wouldn't have minded if she had laughed at him - he often wanted to laugh at people's accusations regarding his ship bing bigger on the inside than the outside. It was perfectly logical to him, just as waterbending was completely logical to Katara. He wasn't used to being on the receiving end of such unusual information. He simply observed, captivated by the water following her hand.

"Mmm, that's... yeah," he frowned, pulling his eyebrows together in confusion. He supposed she could have been from the future, born in a human colony, somewhere they went back to basics without technology like mobile phones and embraced some strange arts instead... but it didn't seem too likely. He knew that he was just trying to make the information fit into his Time Lord view of the universe. "Perhaps some sort of parallel world, although how the planet would have pulled you through the void without splitting you into atoms, I'll never know," he muttered, more for his own purposes of cataloging the information than her benefit.

The Doctor's eyes grew wide as she suggested that he was five billion years old. "Oh, god, no! Five billion's a bit excessive!" he exclaimed, raising a hand to his cheek as if to ask do I really look five billion? "No, I'm... around 900, I lost count. But I'm a Time Lord. I have a time machine, I don't exactly have a linear life. I was in the 21st Century, and then after about thirty seconds, I was 5 billion years into the future."

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