She would want to learn more about the Guardians, but that could wait. The rest of the information he gave her took priority just now. She processes everything as he speaks, and there are many points she wants to discuss in more detail, things she needs to know.
Are these Q immortal, do they know themselves if they are immortal. Can they be bluffed? Do they have a system of governance within themselves? She didn't generally work through official channels, but she could if she needed to. Had to, when she was trying for her pardon, not that she ever really needed one. But she had her own reasons, she always did. And even if they didn't have such a system, all she had to do was convince Q, this one or another, that fixing things was more entertaining than leaving things. Or at least, fixing them to her taste. Or the Doctor's.
She didn't know how that many of his Tardis could be in one place without causing a complex temporal crisis, it was possible that it wasn't this Q that locked them out. The Tardis could be protecting herself. One question to ask was did he try snapping his fingers? But probably they'd have a better chance of they simply separated the Tardises. Talk about things she never thought she'd need to pluralize. She very much wanted information on the fleshy bit. Did he wish really really hard or something? Yes, she would have to come back to that later. Because the Doctor was here with her now, not with the Tardis, and the Tardis, if it really was anthropomorphized, and that was her best guess from what he had said, would be here with her as well, wouldn't she? If the Tardis really was a woman, River was aware that would be the one woman she could never compete with. But she loved the Doctor, and as much as she might want him to herself, no one could claim the sunrise, she had learned to accept that she would have to share. She wasn't happy about it, but it was the cost of loving him. And with the Tardis? Well, the Tardis was family, she was sure she wouldn't mind sharing with her. She never resented the time her parents got to spend with him, after all.
So many questions, so many important things to touch on. So of course River smiled and said, "Well well well, three of you? I lost all track, didn't realize it was my birthday again so soon."
Yes, thank you River. Because THAT was the important bit that needed to be said first.
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Are these Q immortal, do they know themselves if they are immortal. Can they be bluffed? Do they have a system of governance within themselves? She didn't generally work through official channels, but she could if she needed to. Had to, when she was trying for her pardon, not that she ever really needed one. But she had her own reasons, she always did. And even if they didn't have such a system, all she had to do was convince Q, this one or another, that fixing things was more entertaining than leaving things. Or at least, fixing them to her taste. Or the Doctor's.
She didn't know how that many of his Tardis could be in one place without causing a complex temporal crisis, it was possible that it wasn't this Q that locked them out. The Tardis could be protecting herself. One question to ask was did he try snapping his fingers? But probably they'd have a better chance of they simply separated the Tardises. Talk about things she never thought she'd need to pluralize. She very much wanted information on the fleshy bit. Did he wish really really hard or something? Yes, she would have to come back to that later. Because the Doctor was here with her now, not with the Tardis, and the Tardis, if it really was anthropomorphized, and that was her best guess from what he had said, would be here with her as well, wouldn't she? If the Tardis really was a woman, River was aware that would be the one woman she could never compete with. But she loved the Doctor, and as much as she might want him to herself, no one could claim the sunrise, she had learned to accept that she would have to share. She wasn't happy about it, but it was the cost of loving him. And with the Tardis? Well, the Tardis was family, she was sure she wouldn't mind sharing with her. She never resented the time her parents got to spend with him, after all.
So many questions, so many important things to touch on. So of course River smiled and said, "Well well well, three of you? I lost all track, didn't realize it was my birthday again so soon."
Yes, thank you River. Because THAT was the important bit that needed to be said first.