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is it just another children's story that's been de-clawed?
Who: Ned and Daneel
What: Fairytales
Where: The library
When: Day 75
Warning: Discussion of fairytale-style abuse, abandonment, violence, etc.
This is it. The day of the Doctor's big plan. Things won't be kicking off for hours, but Ned is already wound tense. He can't help but fear that the outcome, no matter what it is, will only bring bad things. Their... device could malfunction and kill them all. It could malfunction and the scientists could decide to kill them all, or punish them in horrible unforeseen ways.
Or it could work, and they could all be flung back to their separate homes, and he could end up alone again, away from the people he's come to care about so much.
Every path seems to lead to something dire, so Ned is doing what he does best: avoiding the problem. He is in the library, tucked away at a comfortable corner table, reading a book of fairytales. He knows most of the stories in the book, but that doesn't take away the comfort that he finds in reading them. They might not all end as happily or as neatly as they are said to, but there is at least a logic and escapism in them that he finds quite comforting.
What: Fairytales
Where: The library
When: Day 75
Warning: Discussion of fairytale-style abuse, abandonment, violence, etc.
This is it. The day of the Doctor's big plan. Things won't be kicking off for hours, but Ned is already wound tense. He can't help but fear that the outcome, no matter what it is, will only bring bad things. Their... device could malfunction and kill them all. It could malfunction and the scientists could decide to kill them all, or punish them in horrible unforeseen ways.
Or it could work, and they could all be flung back to their separate homes, and he could end up alone again, away from the people he's come to care about so much.
Every path seems to lead to something dire, so Ned is doing what he does best: avoiding the problem. He is in the library, tucked away at a comfortable corner table, reading a book of fairytales. He knows most of the stories in the book, but that doesn't take away the comfort that he finds in reading them. They might not all end as happily or as neatly as they are said to, but there is at least a logic and escapism in them that he finds quite comforting.