For all their lives, Neas has been haunted by the Time War, the most horrifying conflict in the history of the universe. It was the war that gave birth to the Gladiator of Gallifrey and all that they stand for. Now, another war beckons the might and...
The early years of the Time War were the prime definition of "Hell."
The war between Time Lords and Daleks for the sake of all creation; it seemed to have never ended in the decades it waged on. Millions were killed, only to be brought back to life every second. Women and children burned in the streets, their screams carrying into the halls of the Citadel.
Candace "Zoe" Curtsinger could hear them...she could hear all of it...trapped in a holding cell within the Citadel. She was brought to Gallifrey by means that were entirely vague to her. Rassilon's experiments and tests wiped out a fraction of her memory. The last thing she could remember was running from the Gallifreyan guardsmen that abducted her from the barn in the Drylands – the place she called home for as long as she had been living on Gallifrey.
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The Doctor left her there with people he could trust, including his old companion, Leela, a savage woman who apparently knew Zoe by her Gallifreyan birth name, "Neas." Zoe never got the chance to ask her how she knew it, except for possibly the chance that the Doctor told her. And yet there was the question of how he knew it himself.
Months and years of being held captive in the Citadel, with the Time War raging beyond the walls, Zoe wondered if the Doctor would ever come back for her. She figured he had forgotten her entirely, unaware of the nightmare that had befallen his homeworld...that had befallen her.
Rassilon did something to Zoe's body, injecting it with dosage after dosage of something he called "Regen-8," a liquid substance that glowed gold. After every injection, Zoe would see her veins glow the same way, burning inside her. It was torture at the most extreme level, but she managed to stay alive, getting stronger every day.
According to Rassilon, a part of her that had been living dormant since her birth awakened.
It didn't make any sense to her. Not that it would have, as insane as Rassilon was.
His day of reckoning – the day Zoe had longed for – finally came when word got out that the Doctor infiltrated the Citadel. Initially, it was believed that the Daleks were the real perpetrators of the attack, citing the barbaric nature of the infiltration; but that was not the case. It was the Doctor for sure, or at least a new incarnation of himself that no longer went by the rules of his predecessors. This Doctor was young and robust, angry and unrelenting. He was not the same man Zoe once traveled with.
By appearance, he even looked as much a warrior as his reputation made him out as. The young man who barged into Zoe's holding cell carried a stern, determined, and clean-shaven face with green eyes and messy brown hair.
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