Always Like This
Forever is a long time. She can feel how long it is now that she's part Time-lord. Each and every agonising second lasts a zillion years and yet is over all too soon.
Each moment that passes by is as heavy as a heartbeat, pounding, pounding, never stopping. It's amazing. Mindboggling.
She loves it and she hates it and she's fascinated by it.
"Is it always like this?" she asks the Doctor.
He nods and she feels her eyes widen in (almost but not quite) surprise. She smiles tentatively at him as the answer comes to her in her mind and confirms it.
"Well," she says thoughtfully. "That's bloody brilliant!"
fin.