"They defended themselves, of course," he says, scratching the curve of his ear. "The Daleks are a genetically engineered mutant race of beings. They don't believe in individuality and don't feel any emotion besides hate. Everything in the universe is supposed to be uniform to them. Once they had exterminated enough people and planets, they decided that a race as ancient and powerful as the Time Lords would be no problem for them."

The Master had a tendency to inspire honesty in people, despite how unsettling he was in general. Which was mostly due to the hypnosis thing. Who knew what the other reasons could be. "Powers that equal Lucifer's? Seems a bit unfair," he observes –as he is well acquainted with the idea of unfairness–.