p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif, 'GNU Unifont'; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Drannor opened his eyes and with a groan quickly shut them again, the lights in the room felt blinding to him. He slowly sat up, whatever he was lying on felt so much softer and more comfortable than the straw mattress he was used to./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif, 'GNU Unifont'; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Doctor he's awake!" He winced from the sudden shouting from a woman, then frowned trying to move away as he felt a pair of hands on his cheeks. "It's alright, can you try and open your eyes?"/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif, 'GNU Unifont'; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"It was a man's voice Drannor complied opening his eyes and finding a pair of ancient and deep blue ones looking back at him./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif, 'GNU Unifont'; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""There we go. Look at you all healed up already. Nice to meet you I'm The Doctor. And behind me is Rose, my companion." The Doctor grinned at Drannor./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif, 'GNU Unifont'; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Drannor felt utterly confused, and then the events at the graveyard all came back to him. "I hope your friend doesn't actually expect me to eat my boots." He chuckled his voice rough sounding./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif, 'GNU Unifont'; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"The Doctor handed him a glass of water and looked over at Rose who was grinning. "I'm surprised you remembered that."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif, 'GNU Unifont'; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Drannor merely nodded and smiled softly at her as he took a sip of water and then stretched, he winced slightly as he felt the pulling of scars across his chest and arms. "I'm Drannor by the way. It was a pleasure to meet you both especially since I imagine I would be dead by now and not well..." He looked around the medical bay room. "In this incredibly blank and white room...Where am I?"/p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif, 'GNU Unifont'; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Rose walked over to Drannor and sat on the edge of the bed explaining to him that he was on The Doctor's ship, Like a boat but it soared through the sky instead of the Ocean. Drannor nodded he'd heard stranger things and just assumed that The Doctor was a mage from a different /But there was one thing that was bothering him, he could feel a presence all around him and it felt like it was in his head. He wasn't alarmed as it wasn't threatening but instead felt kind and gentle."Is there anyone else here with us? Another creature perhaps?" He asked./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif, 'GNU Unifont'; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"The Doctor smiled and let out an amused hum. "You can sense the Tardis, my ship. She's alive and apparently, she's just as curious about you as I am."/p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif, 'GNU Unifont'; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"The Doctor himself frowned softly. "I dealt with it all, there's no more wraiths there anymore and no more shifting dimensions in the cemetery."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif, 'GNU Unifont'; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""You don't understand. I need to see if any others survived and I need to get back to my captain. If it's found out that I left military training then I'll be booted out and sent back home." Drannor looked around for his gear as he stood up fully. He didn't notice the cold way in which The Doctor looked at him now but he did catch what he muttered as he left. "A soldier of course, we let another numpty onto the Tardis."/p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif, 'GNU Unifont'; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"She took a breath and blurted out her question. "Are you a boy or a girl?" Drannor leaned against the table as he thought of his answer. It was a question he got thrown at him often, usually as an insult. But he could see that Rose was genuinely curious. "Well I am a boy, but I wasn't always one...well not on the outside. On the inside, I've always been a boy."br /Rose nodded and merely smiled. "Thanks for clarifying and I'm sorry if I was rude, it's just that I saw the scans he did of you and it showed a female body on screen. The doctor did tell me that perhaps you're society sees gender differently."/p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif, 'GNU Unifont'; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Before Drannor could even turn the door of the Tardis had slammed closed, But he wasn't even a bit bothered by the rude goodbye as he stared up at the blue box. "It's smaller on the outside and what an odd shape." He was entranced by the blue box of his dreams and was even more so taken in by it as it started to wheeze and fade away, causing the wind to throw back his long black hair that had come out of the tie he had used to keep it out of his face when training./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif, 'GNU Unifont'; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""The Captain wants me... I'll come to your tent later Thalia." He spoke with little emotion as he walked away from his dear friend. Drannor felt numb to the sadness now, all he felt was anger. He wanted to take Revenge on those who had caused this, those who knowingly allowed it to happen./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif, 'GNU Unifont'; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""There we go. Look at you all healed up already. Nice to meet you I'm The Doctor. And behind me is Rose, my companion." The Doctor grinned at Drannor./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif, 'GNU Unifont'; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Rose walked over to Drannor and sat on the edge of the bed explaining to him that he was on The Doctor's ship, Like a boat but it soared through the sky instead of the Ocean. Drannor nodded he'd heard stranger things and just assumed that The Doctor was a mage from a different /But there was one thing that was bothering him, he could feel a presence all around him and it felt like it was in his head. He wasn't alarmed as it wasn't threatening but instead felt kind and gentle."Is there anyone else here with us? Another creature perhaps?" He asked./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif, 'GNU Unifont'; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"The Doctor smiled and let out an amused hum. "You can sense the Tardis, my ship. She's alive and apparently, she's just as curious about you as I am."/p
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