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[signedlefthanded]

Can't help but feel like my time here's just been wiped. It hasn't been as long as some, but six months is the longest I've been in one place since my parents died.

I'm back to making the lab equipment. Paris was a nice break, but it's nice to be back. Think I'm going to be spending some time in the library. Those haven't been wiped, right? [Hopefully.]

Comments

Violet

[cricketycricket]

One of the quirks of regeneration, I'm afraid. The body completely reconfigures itself - there's not necessarily any consideration for outward age. Besides, if I really did look my honest age, I'd be quite a sight...

Violet

[signedlefthanded]

But don't you exist outside of time? How can you measure something like years?

Filter to end!

[cricketycricket]

Outside is ... a specific way of putting it. I almost would say more that I exist alongside and throughout time, instead. To be completely outside of something is to never interact with it, and -- there's no escaping time. Even if you can live through quite a bit more of it and travel across it at will, it's still there. Like oxygen.

Filter to end!

[signedlefthanded]

But then how do you measure a year if you're never around long enough to wait out a year. And you don't age...

Re: F

[cricketycricket]

Oh, that's simple enough. I kept a diary. [is on his second 700-year one, canonically] And I've a watch set to my own personal time, so I know how long the days are.

Not as much need for it, here, of course... since time travel's out of the question.

[signedlefthanded]

That makes a lot of sense.

How long have you been here, Doctor?

[cricketycricket]

It'll be three years in June, I believe. ... I'm amazed it's been so long. The time really does pass quickly, with all that goes on.

[signedlefthanded]

I'll be here a year in June.

[cricketycricket]

Has it really been a year already? ... Goodness, time does fly.

[signedlefthanded]

Well, eight months, but yes.