"We are both, then, at a crossroads. Who we were and who we will become." Her smile was raw, and there was real mirth in her voice. "Uncertainty is the most inconvenient companion, is it not? And quite the inhospitable bedfellow as well. It keeps running off with my sleep."

She was not entirely sure why she said such things to this man. Only that she did.

Again, that voice. The tilt of his smile as he spoke of the Doctor. It caught her in a way that she could not fully explain. As if it were not her at all.

"I know you," she spoke out of turn to their conversation. With little warning she closed the space between them and pressed a singe hand to his cheek. "Somehow I know you."