meat and bones
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“Can you hear me?” he said. “Doctor?”
From somewhere in the Doctor’s throat there came a low, rumbling sound. His heart sank.
“Oh, you didn’t just growl at me,” he groaned.
Once, not long after he’d met the Doctor, they’d landed on some nameless moon with a dense stone forest. There’d been reptilian things living there big enough to swallow a person whole. He remembered staring one in the face. That vast mouth opening, revealing rows of teeth like knives. In that moment he’d understood, fully and viscerally, how it must feel to be a mouse trapped by a cat.
It didn’t make any sense, but looking into the Doctor’s eyes was giving him the same sensation.
The Doctor gets dosed with nanomachines designed to induce a primal fear response. Gallifreyan basic instincts and human basic instincts are not the same.
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- Part 1 of meat and bones
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It was a strange thing to witness, meat eating meat. Flesh, devouring flesh. Humans were omnivores by nature, so of course it was all perfectly reasonable. But unlike his own people, they weren’t true carnivores. They could eat meat only if it was cleaned and heated to remove pathogens and to soften its texture for their blunt teeth.
There was something of the prey animal about them.
The Doctor struggles with cravings. Steven needs surgery.
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- Part 2 of meat and bones