Some of us must stand alone. Too right. Unfortunately.
He certainly hadn't expected the conversation to turn in this manner, either, but now he feels a strange and unfortunate connection to Wrathion borne of tragedy and mutual blood on their hands. For the greater good. Certainly a Pyrrhic victory, and not a win at all, at least in the Doctor's mind. No one really won the Time War, but it was a war against death itself, in the end, and so the universe going on at all was a triumph.
"And we don't stop. We can't. The darkness is always there chasing the light, the universe always needs saving, the choices always need to be made."
Curious as ever, the Doctor wants more context for what happened to Wrathion's people, but his own words tell him enough. Enough for now.
"You're not standing alone, Wrathion. Not here. And that's all we have at the moment."
What happens beyond this when they eventually leave here, the Doctor can't say. He imagines he'll be alone again himself because that's the fate always waiting for him; hard to imagine otherwise when you've seen the beginning and end of everything.
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He certainly hadn't expected the conversation to turn in this manner, either, but now he feels a strange and unfortunate connection to Wrathion borne of tragedy and mutual blood on their hands. For the greater good. Certainly a Pyrrhic victory, and not a win at all, at least in the Doctor's mind. No one really won the Time War, but it was a war against death itself, in the end, and so the universe going on at all was a triumph.
"And we don't stop. We can't. The darkness is always there chasing the light, the universe always needs saving, the choices always need to be made."
Curious as ever, the Doctor wants more context for what happened to Wrathion's people, but his own words tell him enough. Enough for now.
"You're not standing alone, Wrathion. Not here. And that's all we have at the moment."
What happens beyond this when they eventually leave here, the Doctor can't say. He imagines he'll be alone again himself because that's the fate always waiting for him; hard to imagine otherwise when you've seen the beginning and end of everything.