“Oh, you know —” she shrugged her slender shoulders at the mention of the alien creatures being thick, glancing off to look at something in the distance holding her interest for a moment or two before returning to their conversation properly once more, “— they’re just set about in their ways. They’re stubborn, nonsensical ways.”

The girl moved to sit down at the nearby table, which took a moment of yanking one of the chairs from it to sit down in correctly. Once seated, she leaned an arm to the table and set her chin to her palm to watch the Time Lord in his making of their tea and fetching snacks. Briefly, she wondered, if she even liked food but told herself that now would be the best time to find out, all things considered — after all she was fairly certain that Idris’ body needed food in order to continue functioning properly.

“You mean a zoo with animal-like creatures, or the kind with humanoids? Either way, you’re right. It has been some time since we were anywhere near a zoo of either sort.”

Fingers drumming against her cheek idly, she felt a smile tug her lips the moment he called her ‘old girl.’

“I always did like it when you called me that.”