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Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun
- Ecclesiastes 2:11 (KJV)
4 – Unfair Decisions and Impossible Outcomes
How could one have survived? After all he had been through, how could one have survived? The memories of the Time War were impossible to hold back when faced with a Dalek; he saw Gallifrey burning again, as bright as the red grass had once been on the ground.
Pressing that button had been the hardest thing he had ever had to do. He had watched it because he deserved it. He had done it because there was no choice. Yet now, he had lost it all – become the lonely wanderer – and for what?
For a Dalek to have survived.