VIP Flood for Bianca (but open)
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atardisofourown[Amata takes a few minutes to digest the Barge Facts 101 the Admiral seems to have helpfully dumped into her head. Fortunately, while no telepath herself, she's no stranger to telepathy, or transdimensional ships, although the Barge may actually top the TARDIS for strange and fantastic.
She looks around the suite she arrived in, without poking around, even though she knows that if this is indeed Koschei's quarters, he'd shrug and say she'd be within her rights to do so.
Then she flips on the communicator. People from all over the cosmos all on one ship, huh? No way she's wasting much time making her presence known. If Koschei is remotely typical for the passengers, the next few days will be far from boring.]
Hello, Barge. I'm one of the guests for this flood. My name is Amata, and I'm human, but not Earth born and raised. I'm originally from a pretty backwater colony called Kaitos, late 34th century. The last few years I've been traveling, mostly, some of it time travel. As far as Earth goes, early 21st century is the era I've spent the most time in. [There's no accounting for the taste of renegade Time Lords, as favorite time periods go, apparently, but she elects not to say that out loud.]
How are all of you this morning?
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Amata is cheerfully wandering around everywhere on the ship she can reach that isn't obviously private quarters, and not shying from making use of Koschei's warden item (21st-century British passport, really, Koschei? See above: no accounting for taste). She'll talk to anyone who seems to welcome company, with open curiosity and warmth. Perhaps notably, once she works out what the Enclosure does, she's not very interested in it for itself, although she doesn't mind accompanying people who want to make use of it.
She looks around the suite she arrived in, without poking around, even though she knows that if this is indeed Koschei's quarters, he'd shrug and say she'd be within her rights to do so.
Then she flips on the communicator. People from all over the cosmos all on one ship, huh? No way she's wasting much time making her presence known. If Koschei is remotely typical for the passengers, the next few days will be far from boring.]
Hello, Barge. I'm one of the guests for this flood. My name is Amata, and I'm human, but not Earth born and raised. I'm originally from a pretty backwater colony called Kaitos, late 34th century. The last few years I've been traveling, mostly, some of it time travel. As far as Earth goes, early 21st century is the era I've spent the most time in. [There's no accounting for the taste of renegade Time Lords, as favorite time periods go, apparently, but she elects not to say that out loud.]
How are all of you this morning?
***
Amata is cheerfully wandering around everywhere on the ship she can reach that isn't obviously private quarters, and not shying from making use of Koschei's warden item (21st-century British passport, really, Koschei? See above: no accounting for taste). She'll talk to anyone who seems to welcome company, with open curiosity and warmth. Perhaps notably, once she works out what the Enclosure does, she's not very interested in it for itself, although she doesn't mind accompanying people who want to make use of it.
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Date: 2019-02-14 05:02 am (UTC)[Fitz isn't only responding because she's an attractive woman. He has perfectly reasonable and well-thought-out reasons to be interested in other other time travelers. If they happen to also be attractive women who've given him a good first line - that's just a burden he'll manage to bear.]
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Date: 2019-02-15 03:52 am (UTC)[And yes, technically courtesy of the Doctor for some of it. But she still thinks of that as really being at Koschei's behest. Maybe in some universe, if the Doctor had stumbled across her during her relatively carefree days at university, she'd have ditched everything to run with him. But she'd been the very opposite of carefree when they did meet, and he wasn't likely to intentionally come back when the timing was better, was he? Not without prompting.]
It's a retirement of sorts. Second career? Maybe third is more accurate. Just don't ask me how the time travel actually works, so on reflection that firmly puts me back at hobby status. [She grins self-deprecatingly.]
So what should I call you, and where do you fall on the dabbler to very serious professional scale?
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Date: 2019-02-15 04:01 am (UTC)[He's not entirely sure what to think of his own continued presence. Not that there's any pattern in who's effected by the floods (according to the sort of people who'd probably be able to know), but it still feels like it could mean something. There's also some stuff he'd rather anyone likely to replace him not find out about, which he should probably get on, just in case. That can wait for later.]
Name's Fitz Kreiner, call me Fitz. [He returns the smile.] I'm at 'knowing when to nod when people who know about it start going on'. I travel with a friend, too. I don't think I've been a professional anything, and I'm not sure about him, either.
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Date: 2019-02-15 04:57 am (UTC)Ah, I think that puts us on approximately the same level, then, Fitz. Nodding along to analogies of variable helpfulness from the nerds and occasionally questioning wonderfully fun to say but otherwise probably bullshit neologisms like'timey-whimey'.
[Seriously, she loves slang, and sometimes the Doctor's simplifications are gorgeous word paintings. But it's nice when Koschei's in the same room and she can at least glance over at his expression as a way to fact check.]
Is your friend the mathy sort at least? I'm told there's all kinds of math involved in proper temporal navigation. And while I know a lot of people consider it just another language - the base language of the cosmos even, and I'm pretty good with languages - I just never got past calculus.
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Date: 2019-02-15 05:04 am (UTC)[He shrugs.] I don't think so, but he's sort of every sort. I'm not sure I ever saw calculus.
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Date: 2019-02-15 05:13 am (UTC)Wait, wait, wait. A Doctor of every sort, by chance?
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Date: 2019-02-15 05:16 am (UTC)The type of Doctor who manages to get away with being called that even in places where people should really raise an eyebrow at it?
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Date: 2019-02-15 05:45 am (UTC)[Growing up steeped in a flavor of neo-feudalism means Master does not strike her as inherently more ridiculous than Doctor, as titles go. But she knows academic hierarchy is palatable in a number of societies that are otherwise big on egalitarianism.]
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Date: 2019-02-15 05:52 am (UTC)[His affection for the Doctor is almost at it's most evident when he's semi-complaining about him.]
It's been long enough I have to remember to occasionally be surprised that people just accept it. [He reflects on this a moment.] Of course, he's usually accused of something and there's tossing in cells, and once he's out they're usually too distracted to get into it.
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Date: 2019-02-15 02:54 pm (UTC)I think there's slightly less tossing in cells in the time I've known him, but then diplomacy is my wheelhouse, and he occasionally listens to Koschei where manners are concerned. [The Doctor never being able to completely predict the level of violence Koschei will use when he decides the Doctor needs rescuing might have something to do with it.]
And London - I'm not surprised. I haven't gotten around to that decade yet.
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Date: 2019-02-15 03:15 pm (UTC)[The Doctor at his very worst is still far, far better at Fitz at diplomacy. On the other hand, Fitz is better at shutting up in the face of threats. Usually.]
Sometimes it seems he never leave. London, not the '60s. lot off time dropping in on the late 20th and 21st century. Usually still feels like London, except shinier. And you can't smoke inside.
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Date: 2019-02-17 04:37 am (UTC)2010s is when I first visited and have spent the most time. What stood out most to me was how many large green spaces were in the city. Where I'm from - well, there was some real terraforming in the works by the time I left last, but Kaitos is on the dry, rocky, marginally habitable side. There's some cultivated gardens and lots of greenhouses, agricultural fields in the few flood plains with low enough salinity. Nothing like Richmond Park.
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Date: 2019-02-17 04:42 am (UTC)I didn't make it to the park that often, not really my scene. I used to work in a florist shop, before I met the Doctor. 'Course, that was just a day job.
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Date: 2019-02-17 05:22 am (UTC)But you wouldn't just sell flowers as part of an impersonal transaction.]
Oh? A vocation, then?
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Date: 2019-02-17 05:24 am (UTC)I probably get to play to more screaming crowds, so that's one part of the dream.
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Date: 2019-02-26 11:55 pm (UTC)What do you play? Do you sing?
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Date: 2019-02-27 12:10 am (UTC)What about you?
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Date: 2019-04-03 01:30 am (UTC)My academic background is linguistics and literature, actually. But my late husband was a writer.[Evander's been dead a long time, so there's just a flicker of a bittersweet smile before she moves on.]
I assume you're a guest here, too? [Because surely Koschei would have mentioned the Doctor at some point, and even if he was oblique about it, he wouldn't hide that fact that he himself is a Time Lord.]
A shame you'll probably miss Koschei entirely. He's got a bit of thing for 20th century Earth music, at least in the body I know him, and plays the trumpet.
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Date: 2019-04-03 01:41 am (UTC)Though I probably wouldn't have any idea who was around at this point, flood or not. [If he's going to be honest.]
The trumpet, huh. I've traveled enough that I'm better at not assuming that 20th century Earth necessarily means what I'm used to - even from Time Lords - but that's promising.
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Date: 2019-04-04 01:48 am (UTC)I'll put that you're onboard in my notes for him.
[And if Fitz's name rings any bells, Koschei can do with that knowledge what he will. He'll appreciate being forewarned, that she's certain.]
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Date: 2019-04-04 02:02 am (UTC)I haven't met a lot of Time Lords. [And not for long, though saying that would be on the edge of an extremely tasteless joke. Even for him.]
From what you've said, I assume he doesn't go around constantly disgusted by the existence of worthless primate descendants, which already puts him ahead of most of them.
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Date: 2019-04-04 02:37 am (UTC)I'd gathered arrogant, xenophobic asshattery is what we poor apes would get from most of them, yes. Koschei has, ah, come around.
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Date: 2019-04-04 02:58 am (UTC)They almost make the Earth Empire in the 51st century look open to foreigners.
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Date: 2019-04-04 03:36 am (UTC)Re: Video
Date: 2019-04-04 03:40 am (UTC)