We do what we must because we can

[starlightcalliope]

A hooded figure sits atop a small dais and waits. Around her, a cave of ice expands into the void, harsh and bright and indifferent. Lava flows past her seat, patiently searing away the ice and the rock, carving streams through the ceiling like veins about to burst.

There is no way to measure the eternity she has spent here, waiting.

There have been visitors, pawns to move with her words and her stories to assure that her signal would arrive, but those have been few and far apart. Her own company has always had to be enough.

Which is not to say that the strange presence suddenly entering this dream bubble is of no interest, however. Not her signal, she knows without a doubt, nor the enemy, and she doesn't think there are any more game pieces to account for. So who? She raises her hollow eyes to meet his, and waits for his approach.

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[whofrownedthisface]

Looks like his kind of place, to be honest. Fire and ice. Full of time and purpose. Maybe it has a title involving that? Nah, that would just be grandiose and silly, and he never endorses that. This is age and emptiness and why did he come here, again? He forgets in the middle of wondering. The sense of purpose can only carry him unknowing through this dream for so long. But it holds for the moment.

There's a hooded figure, because of course there is. The universe is full of hooded figures, it's practically a universal constant. He'd be more surprised if there weren't. What did he set out looking for? Not knowing seems normal enough, for now. He won't question it. Instead, he will question the creature on the dais, approaching with careful, precise steps, watching from under furrowed brows. It's hard to suppress a shiver, but then why wouldn't it be? There's ice everywhere, of course there's a chill. He'd look up the word 'foreboding' but he left all his dictionaries back on the TARDIS, sorry. Anyway, this isn't frightening, it's just solemn. Nothing wrong with solemn. Like museums, cathedrals, he'd prefer open air, maybe some ruins, but we can't always get what we want. Can we? Asking for a friend. Time to take this show on the road. "Nice place you've got, here. Really covers all the bases. Lava, ice, soulcrushing abyss. Please, let me know if anything else opens up in the neighbourhood. Maybe something with a fireplace."