Send a what-if scenario for a reaction from my muse.

“That’s … unfathomable.”
He means it in every sense of the word. Every joy and despair, every achievement and failure, are inextricably knotted, like two hands joined and bound by matrimonial cords, to the Doctor. A life bereft of the other half of himself, that’s like staring into a blackness that’s beyond the nonpresence of light: it’s beyond absence, because absence implies that there was once presence.
It’s like staring at Nothing.




