[ That actually does make him stop, right in the doorway. ]
I know you do.
[ Doesn't make him any less concerned, because he cares about people too - cares about her - and look at him. Look at how that goes for him. It doesn't matter, it doesn't make things automatically better, doesn't mean you won't hurt them. Pyro is unstable, and won't so easily be made stable.
But, oh... does he know how that goes. Thinking he won't ever care again because it hurts too much, and yet he always ends up doing so.
There's a moment's pause to consider it, and then he continues. ]
There's another girl. The same girl, almost completely, scattered across time and space. I don't know how, but apparently I'm going to meet her again. Clara Oswald, not Oswin Oswald, but definitely the same. Oswin's dead but she... also lives. In a way.
[ Almost as if he's trying to cheer Pyro up. But, really, it feels like he's just trying to convince himself. ]
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I know you do.
[ Doesn't make him any less concerned, because he cares about people too - cares about her - and look at him. Look at how that goes for him. It doesn't matter, it doesn't make things automatically better, doesn't mean you won't hurt them. Pyro is unstable, and won't so easily be made stable.
But, oh... does he know how that goes. Thinking he won't ever care again because it hurts too much, and yet he always ends up doing so.
There's a moment's pause to consider it, and then he continues. ]
There's another girl. The same girl, almost completely, scattered across time and space. I don't know how, but apparently I'm going to meet her again. Clara Oswald, not Oswin Oswald, but definitely the same. Oswin's dead but she... also lives. In a way.
[ Almost as if he's trying to cheer Pyro up. But, really, it feels like he's just trying to convince himself. ]