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[headstronger]

I'm trying to build my own life now, and you want to drag me off to space? What happened to staying home and writing? Just me and K9 and Brendan until he goes back to school. I don't need any more trouble.

No, I'm serious! I'm done traveling time and space. This just wouldn't be the same.

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[ofdrumsthesound]

Once you've been dragged into his orbit you're never done.

[headstronger]

I'm beginning to think you're right.

[ofdrumsthesound]

Of course I'm right, my dear. I'm always right, except when I'm in enough pain to rave.

[headstronger]

In my experience, people who say they're always right usually just don't listen when they're wrong.

[ofdrumsthesound]

And your experience comes from what, exactly?

[headstronger]

Being a human being.

[ofdrumsthesound]

Not good enough. Humans tend to be slow.

[headstronger]

And non-humans tend to be condescending.

[ofdrumsthesound]

Touche! *He laughs.*

[sandwormie]

It's only through time once.

...Unless you get a canon update? But that's different.

[headstronger]

Once is enough, if I'm going that far! You know how they say the past is another country... Well, the future is too.

[sandwormie]

Countries - oh, yeah, those! Man, I'd love to visit a world with those... Walk a few kilometers and there's this entire different currency, and language, and they dress differently...

[headstronger]

You can find places like that walking down the wrong street sometimes. What kind of a place do you come from, where everyone is the same?

[sandwormie]

Eh, that's just little local communities. At least on Coruscant. It's all really globalized; people of the Upper City have the same accent on one side of the planet as on the other. It's a little different lower down, but...

And I haven't seen as much of Tatooine.

[headstronger]

Oh, how fascinating. I can't imagine Earth like that. It's hard to get people to agree on how to treat each other, much less how to govern.

[sandwormie]

Coruscant is all city, and old city at that. It's been settled for thousands and thousands of years - I guess once they became one big unit they went and got used to it.

I know some people from Earth. ...Do you all like pie? Or is it just that one girl?

[headstronger]

[ She laughs. ] Not all of us, no. I don't mind it, though. Are there a lot of people from Earth there on Coruscant?

[remember_cephiro]

Can that kind of thing get old?

If so, I think I've found my new life goal.

[headstronger]

Trust me, it does get old. I was always being kidnapped or hypnotized or both at once. And the Doctor would just grin and tell me to stop complaining.

[remember_cephiro]

How rude.

On the bright side, you're not likely to get hypnotized here!

[headstronger]

Oh, that's reassuring. [ Sorry, Cephiro, she's having a snit. ] That just means there are a dozen other horrible things that will happen. ...And amazing things, too, probably. They always seemed to go together.

[remember_cephiro]

Well... yes, but I was trying to be optimistic.

[headstronger]

I just thought I was done seeing the stars. Except from my own familiar sky, you know.

[remember_cephiro]

No place like home?

[ smiles a little wistfully ]

[headstronger]

Sort of. It's -- it's really hard to do all this traveling and see a million things you can't share with anyone else or they'll think you're crazy. So I got used to being quiet about it, and now it's back into the breach without a by your leave. It's exhausting!