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I cannot bring myself to risk losing you. Not when you're so different from the rest of those inhabiting this loathsome world.
"Heh," Pantalone chuckled. "You make me feel like I am something otherworldly to be able to talk to you like the human you are, Dottore."
Says the only one who bothered to treat me as such. The only one who believed in my humanity when I myself rejected it. In the same capacity where you recognise me as a truly rare talent, I recognise that you are something otherworldly, Feofan.
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In which new-Dottore and Pantalone are unwilling to address the elephant in the room, a financial presentation stacks against the banker, political unrests disrupts Snezhnayan authority, causing fights amongst factions. Then the Shades decide to cause further ruckus, and new-Dottore would have to confront his own feelings of inferiority against a man from centuries past. Everything comes to a head at a New Year's Ball where eyes trail after those they mustn't focus on (lest they want themselves in unthinkable horrors.) The Traveler's arrival may bring another Pandora's Box no one is ready to confront.