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"What's so funny, Doctor?" Tegan demands.
"Someone called me a hero! That's silly!"
"Is it?"
"Completely! I neither seek trouble nor hide from it; that doesn't make me a hero."
"No," agrees Nyssa, bringing me a biscuit. "But you're still a hero."
"Thanks. I don't get it."
"That's it!" offers Tegan, excited now. "You don't do it for thanks."
"Do what?"
"Oh, you are impossible."
"That I've been told."
"Doctor, it's not about slaying dragons…"
"I like dragons!"
"… it's about being a protector."
I choke on a mouthful of biscuit. "That's not me!"
They declare, together, "Doctor, that's so you!"