Elegantly & beautifully written, as usual, &
delicious ironies. Very believable portrayal of the Rani; for some reason, there's a dearth of realistic brilliant psychopathic villainesses in fanfic.

I wonder if his time with the Rani, though he didn't remember it, had lasting effects: ie, a disposition to fixate on Gallifreyans.

Wouldn't mind seeing further explorations of this concept. Always did enjoy a battle of wills between evenly matched adversaries.