Doctor Who: the Continuity of One

chapter 6

Angela, Amy, and Rory were invited to sit on the couch. The computer chairs were out sider the sunken floor, near computer stations. The Doctor placed Jon and Loxy at opposite ends of a circle, placed within circles of their own. The Doctor had a circle to stand in front of the console, a space devoid of any artwork of symbols on the floor. He pulled a lever. The circle containing Jon and Loxy began to move, a band of the floor that spun, causing them to orbit the energy conduit. An inner ring spun counter clockwise and the next one in, spun clockwise.

"Is this going to hurt?" Jon asked.

"Probably not," the Doctor said. "Triangulation requires a three points of reference. There is Jon, there is Loxy, and there is the Tree of Ever who has graciously link with Loxy and provided her an Avatar. There is over lapping triangles. The Tree of Ever is the offspring of Jon and Angela."

"That's kind of creepy," Rory said.

"That make's Loxy his child?" Amy asked.

"No," Angela said. "The Tree is our child. Elizabeth Grace Ever."

"Oh, that's a nice name," Amy said.

"But, Jon," Rory said. "You made Loxy, so doesn't that make her your child? Which, given your relationship is clearly intimate, makes that a little creepy."

"There's no way to make Tulpas without it being creepy," the Doctor said.

"I withdraw my question," Rory said.

"It's a good question," Loxy said. "Don't worry."

"You're okay with the weirdness?" Amy asked.

"Why shouldn't I be?" Loxy asked. "At our deepest essence, we are sexual beings. We have thoughts and feelings, some of which are biological, but most the time, they're a reflection of our society's, and not our own. I exist outside of time and space. Have I been influenced by dwelling in Jon's mind? Absolutely. He and I influence each other. Either way, we are all merely brothers and sisters in this Universe because we all come from the same place. We are the children of Stars. "

"That is the first time you have acknowledged you live outside of time and space," the Doctor said.

"It's not a great secret, Doctor," Loxy said. "No one truly lives in space/time. People don't understand space/time. Even time lords don't really have great grasp of time, though they really want to impress you that they have a monopoly on that. I am very clever and sometimes I struggle with it, but I know this much. Time is not linear, because it's not a thing, but more like a perspective, and it's much more contextual than people like to admit, and highly subjective, which is why relativity is so hard for most people because, we're used to looking at a clock and a calendar and saying today is Tuesday, but it is never really Tuesday, because the half-life of the Universe never allows you to actually arrive at Tuesday, and if you even try you quickly discover that it is even more subjective than that, like your wrist watch on Earth ticks faster in orbit or even faster outside the galaxy. People get really pissed off if you tell them that, and you seem dazed, Jon, are you following me at all?"

"Could you say that all again?" Jon asked.

"Probably not," Loxy said. "Should I rehearse it for a convention?"
"What do you mean we don't have good grasp of time?" the Doctor demanded.

"It wasn't a slight," Angela said.

"How is it not a slight?" the Doctor asked.