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[thexunnamed]

Christmas, this year, has been brilliant. I haven't had to fight one enemy. I've had sleighrides, snow, and presents - oh, presents! For Claire, I got a music box that played Le Mal du Pays, for Matt, a pearPod quadro to sync with his motorbike, for Martha, a plush version of the Epstein-Barr virus, and for Rose, a nebula encased in a crystalline

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[itiswhatido]

I worked.

[thexunnamed]

Oh? Where or on what did you work?

[itiswhatido]

I do development.

[thexunnamed]

Right, of course! Development!

Er.... what sort of development, then? Real estate? Sustainable? Artificial? Corporate? Arrested?

[catalytics]

I have to come and bring you your present still.

[thexunnamed]

Anytime, Claire. Don't hurry, really. I have a time capsule, so we can always blink back to Christmas morning and open gifts all over again if you want.

[catalytics]

... really?

[thexunnamed]

Really! We can even go back to the first Christmas, though I don't recommend it. Camels and all that.

[missrosetyler]

Doctor...That sounds like it's really beautiful. I didn't know you could encase those things.

I'm afraid my present can't really compare to that.

[thexunnamed]

'S brilliant how they do it, Rose! 'S a wee factory satellite off Appollon. They go and catch the nebula, as it were, then they wrangle it in this mestatronic destabilizer which compresses it until it's the size of a walnut. D'you like walnuts? I don't, well, not really. They're okay if... er, never mind. Nebulas! Yes. Once they're small, they bombard them with neutrinos until they freeze, and the ball forms itself! Genius!

Oh, I don't know about that. I'll love whatever it is, I'm sure. Well... unless it contains walnuts.

[missrosetyler]

That sounds like a really amazing process. Um, walnuts are alright, I suppose. Not much of a big fan though.

It's not edible or maybe it can be knowing you. But it doesn't have walnuts, I promise.

[thexunnamed]

Brilliant! When are you free?

[rlygoodlooking]

What did you get ME?

[thexunnamed]

Er... I didn't even think! What would you like? Perhaps more important, who are you?