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A shrug that says that's fair. You kinda have him in a box here. "Assuming we are opening the doors to talk about these things, now, with the possibility of leaving the subject completely afterward: I might have a question or two."

The Doctor feels a jump go up his spine and he ruffles his hair, "What?"

At least he's had time to think on how to frame this question with some delicacy. "In the first vision you were quite recognizable. A difference in age, perhaps. The other, not so much. May I ask why?"

The Doctor ruffles his hair, "Don't think you'd believe me if I told you."

"Given everything I have told you, I'm shocked and a little offended you think so little of my capacity to consider the impossible."

The Doctor because he knows which memory that was and even said, 'Im the Doctor' in that.

"I used to be a woman. That woman you saw. I regenerate when I die."

He wasn't certain what he expected if the Doctor chose to answer him, but it's not that. His eyebrows go up. "Interesting." He chooses to keep it light, and not address the fact that if he no longer looks like that, it means he died. "Thank you for clarifying."

"You're taking this rather well." The Doctor simply remarks. "Why?" None of his human companions handled it well when The Doctor changed faces.

"I have told you a great deal about worlds with magic, and we are in a place where some people are given the ability to transform as soon as they arrive." A small shrug. "Things change people in various ways. The why is usually the only part that differs."

The Doctor gives a good head nod. That explains that, then.

"Now less of a question and more of an observation but hearing someone say they are going to save the Titanic does leave one with some feelings of incredulity, you understand..."

"Yeah, the thing is. Wasn't the water ship Titanic it was the spaceship Titanic and I did keep it from crashing into the Earth." The Doctor looks smudge about himself and the impossibles that someone use to pull off. Lately, he hasn't been going that sense.

"Seems a terrible name for a ship in any case, given the baggage that comes with it." If he had knowledge of the "color theory in a children's hospital" debate he might cite that as an example of context being important.

"Agreed, but given the CEO was planning on crashing the spaceship anyways."

"So intentional? I don't imagine an insurance payout would be worth it if there were casualties or collateral damage."

The Doctor gives a fierce head nod, "If it crashed the insurance was worth the payout. Unfortunately most onboard didn't make it. They were murdered by robots. But - at least didn't crash into the Earth."

"I'll take your word for it." Even if he knew he could argue in court to get that payout to someone else? Most of the time that kind of legal representation is only available to the wealthy and those at fault for things like this.

"Don't know how all that human stuff works, me. Just know money pushes some humans to be murders." The Doctor remarks coldly.

"Greed comes in many forms. But you're not wrong, sadly."

The Doctor remarks dryly, "Unfortunately. Been though different times and different planet and it still exists."

"If you have people, you will eventually have greed." People, he says. Not humans. Plenty of creatures can be greedy; have you met dragons?

The Doctor gives a firm head nod, "I don't like it when comes down to greed ever. But it's not just humans it's everyone. Everyone who can establish a society. Even without money greed can exist. Greed for power."

For a moment he's remembering his deals with King George. "Greed also makes people very stupid." Said with a distant look and a nod.

"Yup." The Doctor remarks with a tired tone, "We both have stories. But isn't that what anyone is in the end? A story."

"That's the thing. A person is never just one story, and a change in narrator is going to change the tone and the role." Even when the Author as a concept might as well be God in some worlds.

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