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Test Drive for September 2013 Apps

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♦ So you're new to this world and have just woken up in the Town Square. How do you react? What do you do?
♦ You're lost at sea. Maybe you got separated from your crew. Or perhaps you're on an abandoned island. You need help!
♦ "Pirates off the starboard bow!" It's an enemy ship! Attack!!
♦ You and your crew are hanging out on your ship. Just another day at sea!
♦ "LAND, HO!" Hey look, a new island! How about you go explore it? Tell us what you find!
Very nice description for the Doctor's mental state.
No, no I'm quite alright. But you...you look a little green around the gills, as they say. Are you finished nosing around, because I can tell you from loads of personal experience that my head isn't always the nicest place to go exploring.
cheers!
[Which is why the Doctor's words make all the blood drain out of Descry's face. Because the Doctor knows somehow, he knows, and his thoughts spin too fast and in too many directions for Descry to dare trying to read him at all. Even still, when the redhead answers his voice is steady.]
Believe me, if I had the choice I wouldn't be 'nosing' around at all. Unfortunately, I don't.
[A beat, almost as if Descry is finished, and then he asks almost plaintively:]
I don't suppose you could try to not think so fast?
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No, but I can shut you out of my head if you'll give me your hand.
[He extends his own, confidence and kindness all but oozing from his expression.]
Trust me, I'm the Doctor.
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[And all of a sudden he's not sure whether the Doctor can read his mind back or not. Just in case, he slips into a very specific thought pattern, one belonging to his unit commander. His mannerisms shift, just slightly--just in the way he holds himself, gone from quiet watchfulness to a solid but unobtrusive presence. And he lifts an eyebrow, not taking the Doctor's hand. He can't read the Doctor's mind. He doesn't know if the Doctor is trustworthy. And he doesn't know if he wants someone tampering with his magic. The situation is unsettling, to understate things.
[His voice at least comes out mildly humorous, if dry.]
You sound like my ship-mate. He tends to find himself qualified for just about everything too. Unless it's getting a haircut, in which case he is extremely under-qualified.
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[He's perfectly content to let Descry just sit there though, that's his call and no skin off his teeth.]
But either way, what should I call you, since you know my name now. Fair's fair and all.
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I can dream of a lot.
[Descry might not be a Time Lord--while he can't read for certain what that is, he can most certainly guess just from the nature of the Doctor's mind--but he's lived thousands of lifetimes from the memories of others. He's got thousands of people inside his head. His words aren't a casual boast. And even then, he knows the Doctor isn't even remotely exaggerating. Because again, he doesn't have to.
[For one painfully clear moment, Descry wonders if this was how the others, those who know what he can do, see him. Know-it-all. Knowing so much there is no point in obfuscation. Knowing so much that all he can do is sit back and allow others their choices no matter how stupid he knows they are, because he can't make them for them. He wonders when he stopped being humble.]
Descry. My name is Descry Hopeless. What would you do? To ... shut out the static?
[Would it only assuage the presence of the Doctor's mind, or everyone else's? There are some things Descry isn't willing to give up, even though he never chose to have them in the first place.]