Send an accusation and the muse can only answer with “guilty” or “not guilty.”
“Well, guilty, of course. You wouldn’t have ‘asked’ had you not already known.”
The Master licks his lips and looks away, realizing that in this particular case even he isn’t tasteless enough to laugh.
Moreover using Lucy Cole as a pawn and prop in the perfect disguise of a respectable human politician was a massive miscalculation on his part, akin to his underestimation of Martha Jones. Not only did she kill him once for courting and then discarding her; she also botched his resurrection, and was directly responsible for his dependence upon the Council and Court of Rassilon, inside the Timelock, to “cure” him (far from it, they only attached strings to him that he later had to painfully sever).
Lucy has always reminded good old “Harry” far too much of Ailla.
But once again, the subsequent company of the Doctor has given him cause to reach out to Lucy and her surviving family, anonymously, with donations of fiscal aid, and access to mental health rehabilitation services.
He is not about to admit this “weakness” of compassion to a stranger, however.
Icarus 