And you're just obnoxious, insufferable and righteous, but I've put up with you, he shoots back without even thinking. He stifles the rest because he has no time –use– for it.

When the Doctor drops a handful of barriers without reason, he has to follow. It wasn't even a matter of curiousity, not going would have revolted against his natural instincts. The planet he sees shouldn't exist –just like this one– and the evil waiting there is older than even they can fully grasp, like legend –like the Infinite–. And yet it doesn't matter, none of it because if it's all true then...

I can't, I-

He withdraws from the Doctor's mind on a sharp breath, still kneeling on the ground in front of the old man, shaking.