“hmm?” The male lifted his head when he heard the curious woman address him about his source of amusement. He smiled broadly at her in his usual fashion “Oh I was merely laughing at the historical inconsistencies within the pages of these books… there rather amusing I must say” The Time Lord showed it to her, it was on a section considering the early 17th century “I happened to share a cell with Sir. Walter Raleigh…wonderful man but he was rather obsessed with this vegetable he had discovered …I hadn’t the heart to tell him that it was actually tobacco.”
The alien was dressed in a manner that was fitting of one of the men within the pages of the book she had resting in her hands with a long gray overcoat and the grandfather of all scarves draped about him like a wool snake. The Doctor was fairly tall in this incarnation, well over six feet, so he was forced to peer down at Temperance. He carefully eased a hand out to her while he continued to grin pleasantly at her “I’m the Doctor by the way…”