gotosleep_idiot | November Test Drive Meme~!

"Yeah, that and like parallel worlds and dimensions," Rose bit her bottom lip in thought. "I'm not an expert or anything, I've just seen it firsthand. Point is, this place rests outside of that, the void and the chaos both sort of off and away but close. And the multiverse connecting all through here like gates. Followin' so far?"

"So it really isn't... hell?" He's still unsure about that, even with the lack of fire and everlasting torture. But it still feels strange to have ended up in some... safer place? Maybe it was another trick. It seemed his life was full of small hopes that were constantly shattered.

Rose raised both of her eyebrows nearly up to her hairline. "No... why would you think it was?"

Even assuming Krop Tor wasn't "hell" per se, given its proximity to the black hole, the Beast, the possession of everyone, and even the Doctor said the language was older than he could recognize, older than the Universe itself supposedly. So as far as Rose is concerned, that was as close to Hell as she cared to get. But she wasn't going to explain that to anyone if she could avoid it.

In spite of his earlier fears of touching, Rose reached out to put a hand reassuringly on his elbow, reminded again mentally that she should probably be more careful about touch and showing sympathy to strangers lest she revitalize more daleks or whatever else. "Whatever you're coming from, you don't have to worry about that here, I promise." She gave the most sympathetic expression she had. "It's not so bad here. Even though there's some really bad chaos storms, most of the time it's quite lovely, really."

Her touch was gentle and he didn't pull away this time. He wanted comfort. He needed comfort. There was still some innocence underneath his fears that wanted to believe her words and that her touch wouldn't harm him.

"I was told that's where I probably would end up," he whispered, looking away from her.

A small frown and Rose put her arms around his shoulders in a half-hug. "Nope. Not Hell. I've seen the devil and where he was trapped, and this is really far away from it."

A light head pat before she pulled back and offered him a hand. "Come on, are you hungry? There's a bunch of great restaurants here. See?" a wink and a wolfish grin, "Very not hell. Do you come from a place with witchcraft or are you just used to the idea of it? I visited a couple planets where it was a thing, sort of." She waved her opposite hand, using the chatter to try to reassure him still that this was very not Hell, and that she wasn't a threat (because she really wasn't yet, if ever.) "The Doctor, my friend, and pilot, he said it was all psychic electricity magnetic something-something transference, and he's a little particular about the Bending here, that it's weaving chaos energy and I don't know what else." She poked her tongue through her teeth in an even more wolfish grin. "But if it does the same thing as magic, does it really matter what you call it?" she tossed him a wink and flipped her hair out of her way.

That extra hug made his shoulders hunch up even more as if withdrawing into himself.

"You've... uhh... seen the devil?" Well, that was an unsettling statement to hear.

He took her hand tentatively, like a shy little boy much younger than his apparent age. "My ma told me that all witches are wicked and evil and had to be stopped. The world had to be burned clean of them." He took a nervous, shaky breath in and out. "But I don't think it's as simple as she says."

Rose give him a soft grin, "That's a bit dark. My Mum slapped my best friend, but she was never that bad anyway." She led Credence on towards the main parts of the city, towards food and tea. Tea solved everything, at least according to her mum. "Don't worry, I kind of shot him out of the ship into a black hole. Long story. He wanted to hurt my friends, and even though I didn't stand up to my Mum, that's not a good place for anyone to be." A glance around and Rose moved to walking backwards, still holding Credence's hand in her own. "Normally I couldn't even begin to tell ya all that, to be honest? I'm still getting used to the idea that I can even now. This place is really different. Everyone's got their own things, some are really extreme and wild. The other girl named Rose here? She has a real pet dragon. I've seen a lot of different planets, still never saw a real dragon before. And that's nothing on what some of the others can do. I know that probably sounds really scary, but it's not! It's usually a lot of fun!" Rose beamed again, all enthusiasm.

Credence wasn't sure what to make of all her enthusiasm. He was distracted by sights and sounds as they walked and was feeling very lost and overwhelmed, leading him to be very quiet as Rose talked.

There was a lot to take in and he wasn't sure what to say or what to do.

Rose had been overwhelmed by the strangeness of everything before, but she's hoping he's not overwhelmed as her first trip out of her usual time and space, thrown right into the thick and encountering aliens and watching the rich and famous gather to watch her world explode.

Still, she offers what she hopes is a reassuring grin before walking into a pizza place -- with completely automated staff. Don't mind the robots. "You want anything? It's all free. Drinks, food, there's no money in Nautilus. Some people still have a sort of bargain and trade system, Mr. Agareste and the Onceler do clothes and thneed fabrics respectively, but most things are free. With the not-quite-but-sort-of-but-at-least-no-hell witchcraft, anything you want you can usually bend or make, so..."

Grins. "What can I get you? And then you can tell me about where you're from if you'd like. Or I'll answer any questions you've got." A wink. "Free of charge, I promise."

"Can I have water?" He asked meekly.

He didn't think he could stomach anything more at the moment.

"There isn't much to tell," he went on. "I'm from New York and I live with my ma and my sisters. Um... I mean... lived, I guess."

He was adrift now, even if he hadn't ended up here.

"Um, yup!" Rose fetched it without even thinking twice. Although she did add, when she brought it back, "You sure you don't want tea or iced tea maybe? My mum uses tea to solve everything." An eyeroll, but a light-hearted grin to show the affection she meant by it. "Very British. Even if the end of the world was happening, we'd have a picnic with tea." Yup.

As for New York... "Ohhh I've never been to New York proper. What year was it?" The fact that most people didn't even have to ask that question was still a little lost on her. Nautilus sort of spoiled her to the idea that she could be more open about time traveling, and as a consequence, she didn't work so hard to cover for it. She'd never been very good at it to begin with.

"No. Thank you," he said quietly and politely to the offer of tea or more.

The question of the year confused him. He wasn't used to hearing about time travel himself and he certainly wasn't yet used to the strangeness and variety of and in Nautilus.

"It's 1926. What other year would it be?"

Rose chewed her bottom lip thoughtfully. The roaring 20s in America? Sounded exciting. "Any year," she admitted slowly. "Are you sure you don't want another kind of drink? S'just... this might be a bit to take in, yeah?"

She took a deep breath, signifying that Credence might want to brace himself as well.

"All right, so like I was saying about magic, and super science right? Well, this is a nexus between worlds. Not hell, mind you, but time here is completely without meaning to your world, or my world, or anyone else's." She chewed her bottom lip a bit more. "I want to say something to do with flux but I just have this mental image of the Doctor rollin' his eyes at me, right?" She shakes her head. "Point is... I wasn't even born until 1986. I've been to the year, 500 billion,, my friend, the Doctor, we time traveled in our universe. Here? It all drives him a bit nutters. I mean... more than usual. Because all of time is basically collided here. Without meaning. S'like...." She closed her eyes trying to think of a good example. "Air right? It's all around you, and you don't think about it, except when there's something extra added in or you have reason to. Only he sees time normally, so here...." She shrugged. "It's like being in some place where you can breathe fine, but there's no air. And your head just refuses to accept it, right? Because how can there be breathing without air?"

She was probably making this more confusing not less. "Point is... you can step back through the gates, go back to your timeline, but you'll be trapped in it. Nothing here can change all of the human history, so... I don't know, it's a bit weird, and I haven't really tried it yet. Going back to my own timeline, I mean. I'm just taking others' word for it. But yeah, time is only what you put to it. Like breathing without air." She drank some of her own tea. "Seriously drives him 'round the bend."

Rose held up a soda straw, with her thumb over it. "So imagine you wanted to measure the air. Even if you can't see it, you can measure it in different ways, but where there's not air, you can only measure the fact that there's none, make it resistant, and then measure the places where it is. So all the world and where people come from, in their timelines, they're like those places that have air. But this place, is like the place without it. Only, we still breathe. And I don't actually mean this place has no air. I think it does." She stops, mid-breath, AND LITERALLY HOLDS IT TO THINK ABOUT IT. "Yeah, pretty sure. But the time here? That's all smushed. You can measure it, but it's like a vaccuum in here. The time here doesn't translate well outside, and vice versa."

He shook his head at the offer and slowly drank down his water. His glass was empty by the time she had finished speaking.

"You know that all sounds mad, don't you?" He asked cautiously. Maybe she was just crazy. He didn't have good reason to completely believe every word she was saying.

And he was indeed becoming more confused.

"Are you saying places have no time and no air? Unless we think about it?"

He looked completely lost.

"Yeah," Rose laughed, "I know it sounds mad. I can't even talk about it in my own time, or travelin' really. Still trying to get the hang of it bein' okay to mention here."

As for the rest... she slowly shook her head. "Not exactly. More like a frame of reference yeah? If you're standing outside a painting, looking in, you can say "What time is it inside the painting?" right? But if you're in a gallery with lots of paintings, and every painting is of a different time, then trying to decide the time inside the gallery gets a bit complicated. Basically what I'm saying is... you come from a metaphorical painting. And we're in a gallery. And figuring out what year the gallery is in... is hard when you come from a painting."

This was probably getting more confusing than not.

She pulls out her cell phone and slides it over to her picture gallery. "Here, take a look. Bet you've never seen nuffin' like this before, yeah?" Slide slide, Rose and a pair of gentlemen on either side of her in Japan, in space, stardust all over head, and of course a few in Nautilus, a young teenager in a cat-boy outfit, a very tall man in a pinstriped suit, and so on. "Okay so imagine you just were in a painting, but you jumped out of it, and now you're in the gallery, yeah? When you go back in the painting, you'll be back in that time, you might remember the gallery, but try to talk about it? You'll sound just as nuts as me."

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