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Who Palindrome Who
By Rowena Zahnrei
"So, tell me why we're tracking him again?"
"He is a mystery," he said. "A madman, an adventurer, a criminal, and a friend."
They watched him watching them, and saw it in his eyes.
Alone on the path, he raced to his ship.
"He's getting away!" she said.
"Follow him!" he called.
"Yo, banana boy!" their quarry called back.
"I prefer pi," the Doctor responded. "Don't nod," he said to Rose.
Rose pointed: "Kayak!"
The Doctor grinned and realized where they were.
"A man, a plan, a canal: Panama!" he said. "Pull up if I pull up."
Down river down! Them chasing quarry, quarry chasing them.
"I am A.I.!" their quarry cried and tied his ship to a tree.
Rose frowned at their rope.
"No yarn in rayon."
"Tie it," the Doctor instructed.
"Doctor, I am able," she said. "Now you annoy me."
"Watch," he said. Said he, "Watch me annoy you now."
Said she, "Able am I, Doctor."
The Doctor frowned and looked around at the buildings.
"DNA-Land." He shrugged. "Doom an evil deed, liven a mood!"
Yelled A.I., "No evil I did! I live on!" A.I. yelled.
Bells tolled bells tolled bells.
"Egad, a base tone denotes a bad age," the Doctor said, and Rose was gone.
Tolled bells tolled bells tolled.
Universes doomed always doomed universes. She is trapped, trapped is she. Trapped, forever trapped.
Yelled Doctor, "No evil I did! I live on!" Doctor yelled.
"Follow him!" he called.
"He's getting away!" she said.
Alone on the path, he raced to his ship.
They watched him watching them, and saw it in his eyes.
"He is a mystery," he said. "A madman, an adventurer, a criminal, and a friend."
"So, tell me why we're tracking him again…"
THE END THE