Awh, you old charmer. Careful, flattery gets you everywhere. [Fortescue smiles warmly, despite her wry tone. Her own feelings on humanity are rather stony at the moment. It's nice to hear the Doctor speak kindly of some of them.] My father said that about science, once. That teaching it to others made him remember how amazing it was.

[Not that he'd gotten the opportunity very often, but Fortescue had learned from the best. Until that day he'd simply vanished, of course... like the rest of her family. Leaves in the wind.]