Why did I do what? [Oh, he means... what he hasn't done yet. He looks down at his hands. Fingers twine together, and he focuses on his knuckles.]

When we became Time Lords, all three of us, we were dreamers. We took the old world order, and I knew that we could show them that we could exist as part of the world even if we headed science over nature and psychic mysticism. That we could be rational, and take control of Time and when the universe was ours we would treat it just as well. But it was never the same after he was gone. The discovery was gone. We missed him in two different ways, and I never could shake the feeling that business had been left unfinished. Believe me, I've been trying to move on for some time.

But then your rules began changing, and the rumors started about what you'd done to Omega to vie for power [disdain in his voice] The laws of time have became more and more about what you wanted with rather than what the universe needed, the amendments you wanted, and I have no one to back me when I disagree. I'm inconsequential and my name is signed to ideologies I don't always find myself in agreement with.

But I still have my dignity, and I'm still a Time Lord. I may live without interference but I refuse to live uselessly either. I won't abandon my world because I have an example to set. There's so much out there that I would like to see, but you're correct. It's not as important as our people and the responsibility for the universe they're a part of. My post has practically become trivial. As useless as authority was before the revolution. So I've picked my Death Day. I thought about telling you, but I assume I won't. I suppose you would have talked me out of it. You're always quite convincing when you want to be.