019 [Video | Action for flat mates]

[iwasherefirst]

[Rose is lying diagonally across her bed when the video comes up. She looks a bit preoccupied.]

City's quiet again. Always interestin' to see who shows up though. Anybody have someone from home stay this time?



[Locked from the Doctors, Donna, Jenny, Amy, Rory, & Jack]

I know there's all sortsa people here from all sortsa different worlds. I'd guess mosta those worlds got some sorta legend 'bout the fountain of youth or immortality, yeah?

M'interested in hearin' 'em.

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[drinkslikeanan]

[There's a shift in the way Seth is talking. He sounds calmer, more sure of himself. He senses potential client, and the 'dealer' mode is easier than anything to slip into.]

Don't know too much 'bout any legends. But I had my hands on some immortality once.

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[iwasherefirst]

You had your hands on it once...?

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[drinkslikeanan]

[He learned about locking conversations pretty soon after getting here. He'd rather certain people from home didn't hear this one.]

Someone sold it to me. Passed it on pretty quickly, though.

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[deathstrumpcard]

[Not that he knows anything about immortality, but he can't help his curiosity. Living forever just doesn't sound appealing to him.]

Why the hell would you want to live forever?

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[iwasherefirst]

My boyfriend's goin' to live for practically ever. Don't want to leave him alone.

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[deathstrumpcard]

I see...

[Brief pause.]

I assume you've thought about this for a while.

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[saidrepent]

Fountain of youth? [Raymond snorts.]

No one ages past twenty-five where I'm from. No one has for centuries. No legends necessary.

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[iwasherefirst]

But how long do you actually live? [Yes it'd be nice if there wasn't a day on her horizon where she'll be mistaken for the Doctor's mother or grandmother but at the moment she's more concerned with how long she can live rather than how old she'll get.]

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[saidrepent]

[There's a slight shrug.] As long as you can afford to keep time on your clock. For some people, it might as well be forever, but others tend to run out much sooner.

[dulcisnuntius]

Forever is an awfully long time, Rose.

[iwasherefirst]

I know. That's why m'askin'.

[She doesn't want the Doctor to spend the rest of his life without her. She doesn't want him to lose her.]

[dulcisnuntius]

It's not something to go into lightly. I know you want to have more time with him. But do you really want to outlive your whole family?

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[threadthefire]

Everything alright, Rose?

[He looks concerned, and tired, but a bit more... settled than he has in the past.]

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[iwasherefirst]

[She smiles a bit tiredly at him, appreciative but okay. She nods at his question.]

Yeah. M'alright. Not dyin' now or for the next sixty or so decades.

[Because that is where she'd go: Terminal illness.]

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[threadthefire]

Why the sudden interest, then? It's a bit of a maudlin topic if you don't mind me saying?

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[cry_reaper]

The scientists in the past of my world created a virus that eliminated the physical signs of aging. Is that the sort of thing you're looking for?

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[iwasherefirst]

No. I don't care how I look. I mean...it'd be nice not to get much older lookin' than forty or so but m'more interested in livin' a very long time.

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[likeabreath]

Immorality isn't all it's cracked up to be.

For a while, everyone on Earth was immortal. We had to change it back.

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[iwasherefirst]

Guess it might be a problem if everyone was immortal.

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[likesavantgarde]

[Oh, hello fellow person involved with an immortal. Not that he knows this... but. He's wondered himself.]

I wouldn't think immortality is all it's cracked up to be.

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[iwasherefirst]

I think it'd depend on the company.

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[socoolbrewster]

Or more than one.

[Smirk smirk; oh look, fangs.

Ed, what do you think you're doing, exactly?]

Why the interest?

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[iwasherefirst]

[ooooookay. She sees those fangs.]

Company I keep.

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[feigns]

There's also a legend about a man who, for immortality, kept his soul separate from his body, hidden inside a needle hidden inside an egg. The egg was hidden inside a duck which was kept inside a hare which was kept in an iron chest. The iron chest was buried beneath a green oak tree on an island — Buyan — in the middle of the ocean. The island has the ability to appear and disappear at will, or as much will as an island has. Apparently it's also the source of all weather, but that's by-the-by.

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[iwasherefirst]

Wouldn't that change the sorta person he is? Walkin' 'round without his soul?