

"He's... old. Like a heart stretched too far, too thin, knives under the skin pointing down to keep the wolf in, the pain pulls him to the here and now, keeps him the him that isn't *that*, cold like the things in his head, he hurts because he thinks he should. It makes him alone, more than anyone else. Alone with the wolf in his skin and it looks like her."

^(Ehehe, that's definitely Cole. I scratch the back of my head, unsure what to think. More questions than answers, as usual.
Questions for later, mostly.)

"Sounds dangerous."
^(I decide after a moment.)

"He is."

"Do you think we can trust him, then?" 

"Yes. And No. He has too many rules, but he hates that he needs them. I want to help, but the blue box doesn't trust me."

"We'll help, if we can."

^(I can't promise we can.)

"I hope we can. I want to help."

^(Me too, cole.)

"What can you tell me about the blue box?"

"She... sings. Strange, like lyrium, but only when she speaks. She's **full**, like the Templars, but she *is* that bigger thing, like when the mark made you bright. When I reach for her my thoughts slip, then, a hand through the smoke, she reaches back, like a mirror. The song makes me dizzy."

^(Well...that's horrifying) 

"I think she's scary too." ^(Cole says, agreeing to the things I hadn't said. I do wish he wouldn't do that.)

"Sorry."

^(He is, but he'll do it again. He doesn't mean to.
I'm almost used to it now.)

"Thanks, Cole. We'll speak more later."

"How do you know?"

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Short piece of writing by myself on the basic premise of how one character from one piece of fiction thinks about another.

Except one of those characters is a literal spirit of compassion with the ability to read feelings, hearts and minds, and the other is a multiple century old nigh-immortal alien demi-god madman with a blue box and a screwdriver. Passing through, helping out, learning.


Dragon Age: Inquisition style Tarot card Art featuring The 11th Doctor by Zanaurpribadi, commissioned by myself.

"What does The Doctor feel like to you" I probe cole for insight. He understands people in ways no person could.