"It would be best if you stayed here," she noted, "You will be safe here."

Not for long - they were a planet on the edge of war, after all - but for long enough for the experiment to end. He had no way of knowing what other realities he would be thrown into by the cruel and complex workings of the machine.

"Yes," she said, laughing at his tone. "They would not allow any other knd to meet on Gallifrey."

And no other council would be so proud and convinced of their own power to give themselves such a title, surely?