Unforseen, but not out of character...

The Never Ending Quest - Episode 15325

The Doctor doesn't disappoint. "Hello," he says, stepping forward and addressing the helmet. "Xoanon, I presume?"

We all hold our breath and wait for the response.

Gilmuriel

The one known as Xoanon seems to be taken aback for a second or three, then speaks!

"At last! At last!" the machine says, appearing to have forgotten the others present here for the moment, "Us! Now we shall be free.....of us!"

"Meaning, exactly?" the Doctor probed, already knowing but just wishing to confirm for the records, "How exactly will you be free....of us? Who exactly makes up....us?"

"Don't I know?" Xoanon asks, almost coyly. The false diety's voice then shifts, becoming pluristic....a blending of several voices (male and female). "We must be free of us.......we shall make two one! Now we must destroy us.....to make two.....one."

I and E'eysha look at each other.

"I am not liking the sound of the way this conversation is going," my love says quietly to me, rolling her eyes.

"That makes two of us," I whisper back, quietly agreeing.

Meanwhile, while this is going on, I notice several things going on.

One is that Leela and the other natives who'd all gone to their knees at the beginning when that odd helmet started to speaking, now at least some faces have shifted from "expectant" to "confused" (well, all are now confused looking....but that Andor fellow looks even more confused now....and now seems to be growing angry...and is looking over at Neeva's back).

I'm not liking that look.

Ragan, meanwhile, is quietly going over to Leela's side.....

Ragan

Frankly, I'd have thought anyone who'd tell me I'd be repeating lines to a character from one of my favorite TV show in earnest or at least the contents of those lines, rather than......

Oh, never mind! This whole business sometimes makes my head spin if I consider it too much! Besides, I hate seeing Leela on her knees like that!

"Hey," I say, bending down and touching Leela's shoulder, "Don't be afraid. It's just a Transceiver.....a machine for sending voices over long distances. Gods don't use transceivers."

"You sure?" Leela asks me, beginning to get of the ground.

"Aren't you?" I joke, mentally kicking myself for not being able to resist.

"Of course!" she returns, a bit of spirit going into that.

What happens next is totally unexpected for both me and the others. Oh, I'd known that Neeva had been on something like thin ice before all this with Andor, but.....it is within Andor's character.....I guess.

  1. "Neeva," Andor begins slowly, fire in his eyes, "Is hat..... thing..... Zoanon?"

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