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Telia examined the knife. She sighed, annoyed. "Sephy, next time you hand me a knife like this, tell me first!! Of course, it is a little silly of me not to think an assasin's knife might be..well, spelled.. Look!" she said, holding the blade infront of Sephy. She ran her finger along both edged.

"Blunt."

Then she transferred it to Sephy's hand and held it up. Once more, she ran her finger along it, applying no more pressure.

"Sharp."

And indeed, blood was welling on her finger, which she sucked, and healed quietly, having proven her point.

Telia left the argument hanging. She wouldn't bother this time. Really, it wasn't worth explaining. Instead she closed her eyes and looked at Sephy. When she opened them, an alarmed look was in her eyes.

"Okay Sephy. You have two options. Option one. I take over the shielding. Option two, I'll give you some of my energy. You simply cannot go on like this."

Two of Sephy's shields spluttered and died. Telia threw up shields, more of a reflex reaction than anything else. She was too late. The fourth doctor slumped to the ground, a bullet wedged partway into his right hand. The shielding hadstopped it, just as it had pierced his hand. The new doctor was still on the ground, his hair slightly singed from the bullet that had touched the tip of it and rebounded off Telia's own shield. As a precaution, Telia shielded all of them. She placed her palm over Sephy's.

"You've used too much. You spent the rest of your own energy healing..take some of mine." she whispered, closing her eyes and feeling a bit of her own flow into Sephy. Then she went over to the Doctor.

"Sephy, unless you take from my source, there is no way you will be able to heal him. None at all. You'd kill yourself. So we have two options. Lessen the energy I have by me transferring it into you, and then you using it for him, or I heal him. Personally, I prefer the latter. You can hold his head if you like." There was a ghost of a smile on her lips, but her eyes were slightly worried. She had seen how much energy had left Sephy for the..other Doctor's wound, and although she would be using less, had no idea if afterwards, she would be able to keep their shields up.

Eiry sank trembling to her knees. Her eyes were closed, and she reached for the Doctor's hand. With one swift movement, she pulled the bullet out.

"Ow! What was that for?" The Doctor said, hitting her with one end of the scarf, using his free hand.

"Keep still!" Eiry insisted, inspecting the wound. It was only a shallow thing, about the size of a little coin, and only a centimetre or two into his hand. Now she was searching her pockets. Looking for..something. Who knows what?

im sort of not here at the moment

((Where is Clara??))

A tear rolled down Telia's cheek, and her mouth formed itself around a single word. "Mum..."
Sephy stopped, the would having heald properly.
"Did you get that, Telia?" she asked, sending the last of Telia's magick back to her. She felt even more tired than before.
A teardrop fell to the ground.
"Telia?"
Telia couldn't respond. But her mind was wide open - the energy was feeding the shields around them all, and she just kept reliving that one memory, over and over, repeating the details to herself. Unable to get out. Seeing the cold, dark halls of the tunnel. Feeling her magick drain away, as her mother tried to heal a dead man. Feeling her mother realise it was futile, and dying from exhaustion. The knowledge that her mother could not have left the house at all. That she was the only one who could have ever left. Remembering the first..sword she had ever grasped, shakily, unsteadily in that tunnel, after stumbling cross it in the pitch dark. Using her magic as a light. Exhausting herself just as she got out of the tunnel. Being surrounded. Finding that hidden reserve everybody has. Running away from a circle of destruction, this time truly exhausted. And then, vowing to never use magick again, whatever the situation.

Eiry was watching, her eyes wide open. Sure, she wasn't telepathic. But there are signs everyone learns to read after awhile. Some people jsut take longer to do so.

The Doctors looked at each other. "Well..I got shot, and then shot me too..all in the space of a few minutes." the new one said, more to fill the silence than anything else.

Eiry looked at Telia, and then at the 'shields' Or rather, at the bullets richocheting off them.

"I think we should get out of here before she runs out too. Otherwise, we'll all have as many holes in us as swiss cheese! And nobody will be able to heal us then!"

((I see someone was trying to remember their lines.))

Telia gasped, finally jolted out of that one memory, blinking in the harsh sunlight.
"Sephy..?" she asked, feeling strangly detached. Like she was tearing into two. But then, she was still shielding Sephy, and Sephy had just..dissapeared entirely. And probably wouldn't be back for awhile, after all, she had no magick of her own left.

Eiry grabbed her arm. "She's gone. We'll look for her later, Now into the woods! Quickly!"

They ran. The Doctors were in front of them, and didn't seem to enjoy exercise much. Looking back, Telia remembered the scene with quite a bit of humour, despite not feeling quite with it at the time. Well..that was understandable really, scarf flying backwards..coat(s) billowing out...

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Sephy blinked at them. "Excuse me? Witch? That sounds great coming from you lot. How did we get here, if you aren't some sort of..wizards or something." she said, feigning ignorance. She reached for weapons, any she could with her mind, analysing what she could use and what she..could not.

"Burn her!" one of them, a slightly..dim-witted one called out.
"If we burn her, could we get into the hall?"
"Why not burn the hall?"
"What? Why would you want to churn a wall?" This one was deaf.
Their leader silenced them all, and pointed the rifle at Sephy.

"What did you do?" he barked.
Rather like a dog.. Sephy found herself thinking.

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Clara wandered around the TARDIS. She was rapidly getting bored. And lost. Very, very lost. So far, she'd found some sort of wardrobe, a library, a kitchen...in fact, she had almost lost count of exactly how many rooms she had seen so far. And she had definently lost count of how many corridors she had walked.

"How do I get back.." she was muttering to herself. "I wonder what the others are doing. I think I've been here before..Yes, I definentlybeen here before. Great, I'm walking in circles.."

Eiry looked up at the canopy above them, and then down again at the Doctors. Well, technically, she was still looking up.

"You're tall.." she muttered, feeling somwhat dizzy. From the running, that is. Not vertigo or anything. She collapsed, sitting against a tree trunk for support. Her breathing was laboured and even sounded painful. Her head dropped into her hands.

"Don't like running?" Telia asked, watching her. She relaxed her shields a little, to conserve her magick and found..well..it was a bit strange to describe. Imagine a wall, holding back a flood. A dam. And then, suddenly the pressure is too much, and with help from the other side, the dam bursts. Picture the great gaping hole. And then, picutre this all inside Telia's mind. She followed the streams..of emotion, of pain..and the past, and found a person. Well, sort of. She could tell it was Sephy, in a way. But she had no idea where Sephy was..or how she could tell it was her either.

The Doctor looked at himself. He didn't do anything, just looked. And then, he sat down too. "What exactly are we doing here?" asked the one with the massive scarf.

"Where else could we go? And I was going to say that."

Telia bricked up the dam..as best she could, with what she had...and replied, ahving only just caught the conversation.

"I think you'll find you did.."

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Clara wandered into a room, and decided to stay put. Surely, the Doctor of all people could find her..eventually. After all, how long had he lived in his TARDIS for? Surely you'd know all the rooms by then.. and there was no use getting lost over again.. No. best to stay put. So she set about exploring the room. It seemed to her..to be a library of sorts. that is, until she turned the corner and found a bed. A bedroom then? No, there was a kitchen there..and what looked like a bathroom through that door..
Maybe it was an ensuite? She shrugged and flopped onto the bed. She didn't particualrly care. She was just tired.. And oh, that looked like an interesting read! She picke dup the book with a smile on her face.

The Doctor frowned. "Now that felt odd." He said, flicking his scarf back over his shoulder. He closed his eyes. "Ah..I think I know where she is..but how to get there..and her exact location..are harder things that come into it.." He muttered.

"I'm going to take a wild guess and take it he means Sephy," Eiry said.
"Who else could it be?" Telia.
"Um..Clary? Clara? That was her name..right? Where is she?"

The..other...Doctor turned. "Well if we have two missing people, we'd better get a move on.. This other girl you're talking about, Clara. Where did you leave her?"

"In the TARDIS..I think." Telia shrugged.

"And that Sephy's gone off and dissapeared and we don't know where she is?"

They nodded, Eiry rolling her eyes a little. "State the obvious." she mumbled.

"I KNOW WHERE SHE IS!" The Doctor called. Silence reigned for a minute after he opened his eyes. "Um..that is, Sephy. I know where to find her, I don't know how to get there."

"So we'd better find Clara first?" He replied.

"Sephy's in more danger." Telia said quietly. "We need to help her first. Clara's still..safe. Relatively, anyway, back in the TARDIS. Sephy.. well, leave it a bit longer and she wont be able to defend herself. She could die while we go looking through the TARDIS for Clara.."