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WHO: The Doctor and Lyra Silvertongue
WHERE: A Pizza Place
WHEN: Saturday the 2nd
WARNINGS: None
SUMMARY: The Doctor and Lyra have pizza and talk.
FORMAT: Whatever.

The Doctor was in high spirits as he went to the pizza parlor that Lyra had recommended. He wasn't necessarily a big fan of pizza but it was hard to pass up a good old fashioned New York slice of pizza. Or City slice of pizza. Plus, he'd get to talk to Lyra Silvertounge and that would be exciting. He wondered if she'd have the alethiometer. Oh how he'd love to have a look at that. So, it was with a broad grin that the Doctor neared the parlor.

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"I can't imagine you could live too normal of a life here," the Doctor said, taking a bite of the pizza and taking a moment to savor it. Mmmm, Earth pizza.

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"Well, not really. But people can try, I suppose," Lyra said as she took a few more bites.

"Of course, you'd have to ignore most of the stuff that happens here to do that," she added.

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"That must be nearly impossible to do," he said, thinking of all he had already seen and heard in the short time he had been here.

[lyingbrat.livejournal.com]

"And yet, people manage. Although why they want to ignore all this interesting stuff, I don't know. And it doesn't really help. It's not like stuff goes away if you pretend it en't there," Lyra said as she finished her slice.

[sciencegeekchic.livejournal.com]

"Ohhh, who would want to ignore all of this," he said, waving his hands about to indicate the entire city as he ate some more of his slice.

"Look at this, this place is brilliant!"

[lyingbrat.livejournal.com]

"Dangerous, but brilliant," Lyra agreed, "And all the people here!"

[sciencegeekchic.livejournal.com]

"I know!" the Doctor said, nodding in agreement. "All sorts of heroes and gods and elves and ex-robots and things like that. And all sorts of different species too."

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"Yeah. The 'porter makes a lot of them human though," Lyra said, "And I think there's only two elves in the city. Lots of people who used to be robots though."

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"Those poor robots," the Doctor said, shaking his head. "To be so aware of every facet of your being and then suddenly be stuck in the body of a human..."

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Lyra tilted her head, "Yeah. Most of the time, that's the first thing they say on the network. Besides the usual 'where am I and what's going on' that almost everyone asks one way or another."

"Although there are some people who... well, they're evidence that the 'porter talking about heroes was probably a lie."

[sciencegeekchic.livejournal.com]

"I read up on some of those," he said. The information that GLaDOS had given him was very informative and had been useful in determining things like that.

"Very, very bad news."

[lyingbrat.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, like the Lich King," Lyra said unhappily.

"And people don't work together to stop them until something horrible happens."

[sciencegeekchic.livejournal.com]

"Ohhh, Lich King just sounds bad, doesn't it?" the Doctor said, rolling his tongue around the words. "Lich King. Lich, Lich..."

Thinking about her second commend, he took another bite.

"Sometimes that's what it takes to bring people together."

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"Maybe, but I'd still prefer they did it before lots of people got hurt," Lyra pointed out, "And yeah. 'Lich King' en't a subtle name at all."

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"Do people do that in your world, get together before it happens?" the Doctor asked, tilting his head in question.

[lyingbrat.livejournal.com]

Lyra bit her lip, "Sometimes, I guess. When they could see problems coming," Lyra couldn't think of any examples, but she was sure there had to be some.

"Other stuff... Well, people can't stop what they don't expect."

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"That's the hard part," the Doctor said. "Seeing things coming. Most of the time you don't know until half over what really happened to begin with."