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"You know I am! The same as – oh." Without thinking, the Doctor reached up to press long fingers to Cesh's temples... and immediately jerked back as if burned, his eyes wide. So much, so deep, a weight of ages far greater than any Time Lord had ever known threatening to drag him down and swallow him whole, to crush him beneath its impossible magnitude. He was old but compared to this... "You lived it all?" he breathed.
Was PERFECT.
The doctor is such a baby compared to the life jack will have to live and "jack" doesn't cut and run