The mental contact is unexpected and startles her into returning most of her attention to him. How is this possible? And is it one of the things that matter right now? Either way, she wants it, she's been deprived of it for too long and it would be such a comfort, even if it's only a memory of what his company used to be.
She returns the gesture more haltingly than before, her mind just as writhing and aflame as her physical structures, and there is an incredible pressure at the core of it, something that is tearing her up even as she is clinging to it with all the force she has. But before the contact can be more than a tenuous tether, something alarms her and her whole focus shifts, pulling Gabriel along like forgotten flotsam.
It's another disturbance in the Architectural Reconfiguration System. Another? Or the only one? More things that are slipping her mind. One of the scavengers the Doctor brought in has found the tree and he's threatening her seeds with a laser saw, moves to cut one off, and she bristles with anger and fear. But the Doctor arrives to stop him, her Doctor, love and relief washing over her at the sight, and confusion, because why does she feel like she's been missing him for a painfully long time? She's too distracted to realize that she has manifested both herself and Gabriel in the room, the scene playing out before them uninterrupted by their presence. The Doctor explains that this is where she reconstructs matter, cradling one of the circuits and begging the scavenger not to steal from her.
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She returns the gesture more haltingly than before, her mind just as writhing and aflame as her physical structures, and there is an incredible pressure at the core of it, something that is tearing her up even as she is clinging to it with all the force she has. But before the contact can be more than a tenuous tether, something alarms her and her whole focus shifts, pulling Gabriel along like forgotten flotsam.
It's another disturbance in the Architectural Reconfiguration System. Another? Or the only one? More things that are slipping her mind. One of the scavengers the Doctor brought in has found the tree and he's threatening her seeds with a laser saw, moves to cut one off, and she bristles with anger and fear. But the Doctor arrives to stop him, her Doctor, love and relief washing over her at the sight, and confusion, because why does she feel like she's been missing him for a painfully long time? She's too distracted to realize that she has manifested both herself and Gabriel in the room, the scene playing out before them uninterrupted by their presence. The Doctor explains that this is where she reconstructs matter, cradling one of the circuits and begging the scavenger not to steal from her.