Also, what the hell were you thanking me for?!!!
The Doctor's entire face seemed to twist viciously in that instant. She instinctively wanted to pull demons and the like from the Internalized Universe to fight for her again, but before she could speak, the petite little girl trembled as she threw her second punch, smashing it heavily into the Doctor's abdomen.
No intense, shuddering pain came.
Instead, the floodgates of memory opened.
A distant scene from space surfaced in her mind: she piloted a spacecraft around a blue ocean planet, using the star as an eternal anchor as she flew lap after lap along the boundary between day and night.
Then, her vision began to blur, and a girl's voice faintly reached her ears, heavenly in its beauty:
"My name is Prysis. I am a linguist, devoted to studying the final sound waves emitted when planets vanish. I enjoy the peace of solitude, but I also long to explore the vast universe alongside companions who share my aspirations."
Prysis...
So you had always been by my side?
A happy curve rose at the Doctor's lips.
Then, like a kite with its string cut, she crashed heavily to the ground.
Mud instantly stained her entire body, her hair scattering in disarray like a sudden storm.
The Doctor, Amiya
Darkness descended over everything like a heavy curtain, silent and absolute.
The Doctor sank into boundless nothingness, losing all sensation.
After an unknown length of time, a damp, warm touch gently enveloped her body. Like the first light of dawn, it gradually awakened her sleeping soul.
Her hearing—the sense said to be the last to remain before the flame of life was extinguished—revived first under the nourishment of the water, guiding her back into the world of sensation.
Then, a string of voices