There is a flash of light, and Q's back in the Nexus.

No, not that Q, the other Q.

She's wearing the form she wore here last time -- a tall, red-haired, human woman -- but the arrogance she carried herself with last time is mostly gone. She looks tired, and while she makes a token attempt to sneer at the Nexus, it's only a token... the sneer is gone in seconds, replaced by an expression that seems both empty and unhappy.

"How do you live with knowing how weak you truly are?"

This was getting to be a habit. Hubs at the end of the world - or the center of the universe, rather - seemed to be a popular hangout for the Endless. Maybe it was the multitude of people that gathered there, or maybe it was how incredibly big the universe felt there, or maybe she just found them interesting, but Death could always be found there, as she is now, sitting a table sipping a drink, and smiling at the world as she sees how it's all going to end.

"Hm-mm... pop quiz, folks."

She sets down her mead, and flashes a knowing smile.

"Why?"

Now, it's quite often that the Doctor finds himself in a strange place. He's been to an over-abundance of worlds, after all, and with all the time he's spent bobbing around the universe he's used to ending up somewhere he doesn't quite expect. The TARDIS had fallen into the unfortunate habit of surprising him lately, too, and normally he'd figure turning up at the hub was just her silly way of saying "Why thank you, Doctor, for being such a nice Doctor - here, take a load off and have a drink, why don't you?"

Except that the Doctor doesn't quite know where his TARDIS is, and that's not a very usual thing.

"Well, this is a pickle, innit?"

He sits himself at a table, sets his elbow on its top and squishes his cheeks between his hands, pondering the far wall.

"Now if I were a blue box, where would I be? Well, I'd be where I left myself, of course, where else would I be? Now where in the world did I leave myself? That's exactly the pickle, you see, because I don't remember that. But I should remember that - no, I do remember that! It's just the matter of sorting out which where I left it it is now, innit? Except of course I don't think I've been here before, so it's got to be the newest where I left it... but the newest where I left it would have to be back there, and this isn't back there at all, that I can see, so that only leaves that I really don't remember where I left it and that's a wibbly bit of trouble."

He releases his cheeks and takes a breath, and voices a question to the multiverse.

"So if I don't remember the where I left it that I really should remember because it's the only where I left it that I left it this time around, how in the world am I getting back my box?"

It seems Faye has been living in the Nexus since Christmas Day... Which, of course, was pretty much ruined by her near-kidnapping, temporary dismemberment and losing her sword. She hasn't really done anything productive, other than setting up a home for herself.

Currently sat on a love seat, Faye's wishing she could be affected by alcohol.

Now, there is the required question. "How would you all cope with being rendered completely helpless...?"

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There seems to be a rather tall orange and black mech pacing about near the sign today. After a few moments, he asks his question without ceasing in his pacings.

"Suppose there's someone who was a threat to the well-being of an entire planet and its inhabitants... and someone else eliminated the threat, or so you thought... Roughly a year passes, and something happens involving the original threat, which proves that the threat survived, though in a very weakened state. Now the original threat has been totally neutralized... Though now he or she is a shadow of who they were originally. Bear in mind that they can no longer harm anyone, due to what happened... Do you accept that and let them be, or do you keep watch to make absolutely sure they can't harm anyone ever again?"

April had not been able to visit the Nexus lately, because of a busy school semester. But today she is on her winter break, and is relaxing by a chair with a winged blue kitten in her lap.

"Do you ever think your life would be different, if you or your family was more normal?" And by normal, she means not having special abilities.

"Or is there such a thing as normal..."

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