On the way to a holiday spot full of relaxation and comfort, my companions and I detected a world out of phase with the timeline. We immediately set out to investigate the discontinuity at Kahruvel. Landing, we localized the source of the phase difference to the southwest of our landing point. There was an eerie lack of life for such an idyllic setting.
At the epicenter, we encountered the Traveller, an associate and acquaintance of mine, and a feline humanoid chatting in an empty settlement. We approached and attempted to address the problem, but were met with dodginess and glib avoidance of the problem at hand. The only thing Trav and her companion seemed interested in was some esoteric experiment they had going on with the local waters to convert them chemically into a novelty beverage.
After several attempts to reason with my old friend, I convinced her to open up to a mind link. In the link, I received horrendous images of death and destruction all intercut together. The madness was staggering in the link, and as a member of the High Council, I placed her in custody, by asking my companion, the artificial lifeform Serenity to place her into a confinement field as well as calling for assistance from new Gallifrey to both aid in rectifying the temporal discontinuity as well as security to help detain the suspected renegades. Safely in the confinement field, my other companion, the Watcher and I could focus on the felinoid, identified as Tink, who pulled a firearm on us while the Traveller negated the containment field.
In the ensuing scramble they made to escape to the Traveller's TARDIS, Tink fired a shot into me as their doors closed and they dematerialized. I, then regenerated into my sixth incarnation. My companions assisted me as we called the TARDIS back with the Stattenheim and once inside, I could safely recover in my zero room. The Traveller and her cohort are very dangerous individuals and it saddens me to see a former classmate and someone I called friend become a renegade of the worst kind. In the struggle to re-establish our civilization, we seem to have also brought some of our worst excesses with us.
6 years ago
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