All Breakages Must Be Paid For

“The beginning of wisdom, as they say. When you're seventeen you know everything. When you're twenty-seven, if you still know everything you're still seventeen.”Ray Bradbury, Dandelion WineEvery action that we take exacts a cost and produces consequences. Nothing can be undone.Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad ScrollsThe Doctor: Sometimes the only choices you have are bad ones. But you still have to choose.Mummy on the Orient Express, S8 ep 8~This story is essentially a companion piece to/continuation of ‘Dating the Cleverest Boy in the World', chronicling events that took place away from/following the main narrative of that story. It’s a difficult story to describe, but at its heart it is about the process of growing up. The story deals with endings, heart(s)break, new beginnings and the unexpected hurdles that life throws at you. It is also about taking responsibility for mistakes that can never be put right and learning to live with that.tl;dr: How does the Seeker grow from the kid we see at uni, to the self-assured adult of his later life? This fills in a good few of those years.