"You kill me and I'll wake up," Jack said, trying to sound confident. He wasn't sure how true it was, of course, but it had gone that way before. But the Master was getting stronger. Who knew what he could do?

"And if I wake up, you're nothing. Think that makes you more the mouse, don't you? Caged at that. And you know I'll just keep saying it until you get it into that thick skull of yours."