"Because you already do." Because even if that wasn't true, she doubted enough it wasn't false either. There was enough doubt and, by it, enough knowledge of the possibility, it made her harder to doubt, too.
Someone who knew that the potential might happen. That the differences between, faces and situations, were only details as malleable as time and place. The flip of a switch. If a very different kind than used for the Tardis. But it was there in her face and those wounded, but intelligent, eyes.
The Doctor canted his head, shifting his weight in his shoes. "And because I have no reason to lie about who I am to you, and even less to be gained from pretending to be myself in this place, where very few people have arrived knowing any of the other arrivals. Nor have been from the same times, no less the same universes so far."
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There was enough doubt and, by it, enough knowledge of the possibility, it made her harder to doubt, too.
Someone who knew that the potential might happen. That the differences between, faces and situations, were only details as malleable as time and place. The flip of a switch. If a very different kind than used for the Tardis. But it was there in her face and those wounded, but intelligent, eyes.
The Doctor canted his head, shifting his weight in his shoes. "And because I have no reason to lie about who I am to you, and even less to be gained from pretending to be myself in this place, where very few people have arrived knowing any of the other arrivals. Nor have been from the same times, no less the same universes so far."