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Susan tried to concentrate on Mr Chesterton’s lesson, but she felt her mind wandering. It wasn’t his fault, being limited by his own time period, but at moments like this, Susan drifted back to the rare moments when Grandfather had tried to teach her more advanced temporal engineering and time lord science.
“Listen child, the vacuum of space doesn’t allow for…”
“A time window may appear to be complex, but the central principal is really quite simple…”
“Objects that get trapped between two dimensions will often cease to exist entirely…”
“In a time lord’s final form…”
Sometimes—no, often—Susan felt like she had been existed in a dimension adjacent to this one. The human children were baffling, but she was determined to try. Sometimes she heard grandfather’s words haunting her.
“And what if the humans find out we are not one of them, hmmm? We must take than chance…”