Like hotels on Earth, the Serammona Resort and Spa has an area where traveling businesspeople could access computers for free. Oswin opens a frosted-glass door and peers into a large room. Ugh, they still have cubicles a hundred years in the future…

Perhaps the Doctor enjoys running from aliens- but what Oswin loves, really loves, are computers.

She loves the little chimes they make when they're starting up. She loves the feel of a keyboard under her fingertips. She even loves cat videos.

More than any of that, though, Oswin loves hacking and programming.

The computer turns on, faster than she'd expected. It has the familiar Windows backround- but none of the icons look the same. They're all blobby.

For a moment, Oswin considers ragequitting, but then she remembers the TARDIS's buzz at the back of her mind. If she closes her eyes and blocks out all other thoughts, she can even hear one of its code-layers:

href-http& translate img alt src "words" [companion= Oswin] &/translate

Below that run lines of a programming language Oswin isn't even vaguely familiar with- some sort of pictorial code, all golden circles and interlocked, gently shifting spirals. She gets the feeling that the TARDIS is translating its messages for her benefit.

How do you program a TARDIS? Is it locked against outside interference? Still, it's worth a try.

Oswin holds her hands out in front of her, visualizes a keyboard under her fingertips, and types in the air:

href-http& translate img alt src "words" img alt src "pictures-pictograms" [companion= Oswin] &/translate

There's a faint humming sound, and when she opens her eyes, the icons on the screen are recognizable.

Okay. That's the code-writing software she uses- a different version, but she's always been a fast learner. Hacking into radio networks and intercoms? Kid stuff. For a laugh, she and Nina used to take the subterranean down to the shopscrapers and mess with the fly-through speaker system at fast food restaurants- changing people's orders, that sort of thing.

What Oswin's doing now is rather similar, just on a much larger scale. Elisa's people use 'snowglyph' instead of 'img src,' so that trips her up a bit, at least until she gets a good look at the walkie-talkies' source code, and their language uses characters that aren't on most human keyboards, so she keeps having to go to the Symbols menu to insert various 'vertical box drawings.' But that?

That's nothing.

There's a keyboard under her hands and a screen in front of her face, and Oswin is flying.