"Everywhere," The Doctor said easily, before bobbling is head a little consider. "And nowhere."
It might sound like a brushoff but it was as true as true could be, too. Gallifrey was no more. There was nowhere he was from now. Nowhere he'd been from for centuries now. And even then, he'd spent endless centuries before that being once from it, but hardly ever on or near it or even claiming it more than in title. Yet it was still a deep wound to touch.
It's easy for him to roll right on further without stopping, when the boy was commenting on the details not matching up. When they were of the smallest one The Doctor spent staring at not matching up. "That's probably the parallel universe, and space and time pulling part. Very few people here are from the same place or time."
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It might sound like a brushoff but it was as true as true could be, too. Gallifrey was no more. There was nowhere he was from now. Nowhere he'd been from for centuries now. And even then, he'd spent endless centuries before that being once from it, but hardly ever on or near it or even claiming it more than in title. Yet it was still a deep wound to touch.
It's easy for him to roll right on further without stopping, when the boy was commenting on the details not matching up. When they were of the smallest one The Doctor spent staring at not matching up. "That's probably the parallel universe, and space and time pulling part. Very few people here are from the same place or time."