numbered_doctor

"A little," he says after a sip of the tea. "Its apparent age notwithstanding, it's a fairly recent piece of Time Lord technology. The only reason I can see that it would have taken so much wear is that it's a relic from the Time War. The sorties took place over billions of years, right across the universe, and debris has been scattered throughout time and space as a result. So far, though, I still haven't been able to decipher the writing, or determine what its intended function was."