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LOST: Husband, Rory Pond. Height & Weight: 5'10", 160-ish pounds. Hair: Brown. Nose: ... on the large-ish side of normal. Face: Stupid. Last seen wearing a flannel shirt and carrying a lager.

If found please return to Amy Pond, South 303 - and feel free to give him a smack for me.

Oi stupidface, if you're reading this, you'd better not be dead in a ditch somewhere because I am going to kick. your. backside!!

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So you wouldn't be able to find him during that time.

Not with a scan, no. Doesn't mean I won't be looking, if that's where I'd find him.

Do you have another way?

Maybe.

Well, not exactly.

No.

But I'm very good at improvising.

If I can figure out how this time bubble works, what the rules are...

Time bubble? You mean the Dark Hour, right? We're talking about the same thing?

Frozen time, black coffins, green moon, bloody streets, nothing works...

Dark Hour's a pretty good name, actually.

I'm guessing you know more about it than I do.

I guess I always thought of it as more psychological than scientific.

And that's valid. Different perspectives are good. And given how symbolic everything seems, it's probably more valid than my angle, to be honest. But what I know is time, and I can assure you, time very literally stops for that hour. What happens there... isn't time, exactly.

Then how can we move through it?

Very carefully.

I suppose what I mean is, it has its own, disconnected temporal metaphenomenon. But the rest of the world stays frozen in that single quantum instant... the universe doesn't expand. Molecules don't decay. Nothing ages. Time as we know it ceases to operate.

I got half of that, but I think I get it enough.

What does that have to do with the Shadows?

Shadows?

Dark, blobby, angry creatures?

I don't know anything about them, unfortunately. Couldn't scan them, so mostly I just... ran away. They have an... unusual psychic presence. Not terribly pleasant.

The Shadows are the reason the Dark Hour exists.

...Ah. All the worse that I can't get a scan of them, then.

It might get more difficult if you get your hands on one.

I'd think of something!

No way of isolating one or two outside the Dark Hour, then?

... I'd rather not see what would happen.

Well, you're the expert...

Someone tried once before, and it didn't turn out that well.

Still a pity. But no, it's often best not to mettle in things like that.

Yeah, not until we know what's causing it.

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