The other Doctor's tone is even enough, but it carries an almost wary undertone. And, well, the Doctor realizes that it would; it would be strange if his other didn't feel wary towards the fact that he's apparently able to create an entirely new form of radiation. The Doctor in black had been basically dead, stripped of the one thing that made him the man he was, his corporeal form, until his TARDIS rebuilt him. To the Doctor's knowledge, it's not something that has ever happened before. His other is the Doctor, a Time Lord in his tenth regeneration, but he is also new, different, and yeah, the Doctor can understand why he would feel a little wary about that.
"Down here, you said?" The Doctor dodges a few tables and squeezes past a workbench to get to the shelf with the notes on - ah, regeneration. That makes sense. It wasn't a regeneration per se, but what his other is describing sounds like a more severe version of post-regeneration trauma, so the process was probably similar to a 'normal' regeneration, or at least based on similar principles.
He picks up one of the lab journals and opens it, hoping to find maybe somewhat confused, but still legible research notes - and finds a page filled with drawings of small fish. Some of them are part of equations - two fish plus three fish make eight fish, and yeah, even the simplest of those fish-equations don't make any sense. He flips to another random page, and this is more like it. At least these are recognizable mathematical symbols, even though they're from Earth's early 20th century, and why would his other use this rather limited mathematical language for these types of calculations - until the Doctor realizes that he's looking at a recipe for pancakes, carefully spelled out in mathematical equations.
The Doctor flips the journal shut. "Yeah, no, I think we'll have to redo those, um, tests." He's quite sure that even if he found a page filled with actual calculations and lab results on the strange radiation in his other's notes from that time, they'd be rather unreliable. "We'll need to try and get you to emit some more of those particles. Do you, um, want to try it the way it worked before, or do you know another way?" Merging his mind with his other to communicate with his other's TARDIS had been an interesting experience, but he's not sure if it feels like something they should be doing again such a short time after. If his other doesn't know a different way to create the radiation, though, he will go ahead with the merge. He's pretty sure this radiation thing is significant.
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"Down here, you said?" The Doctor dodges a few tables and squeezes past a workbench to get to the shelf with the notes on - ah, regeneration. That makes sense. It wasn't a regeneration per se, but what his other is describing sounds like a more severe version of post-regeneration trauma, so the process was probably similar to a 'normal' regeneration, or at least based on similar principles.
He picks up one of the lab journals and opens it, hoping to find maybe somewhat confused, but still legible research notes - and finds a page filled with drawings of small fish. Some of them are part of equations - two fish plus three fish make eight fish, and yeah, even the simplest of those fish-equations don't make any sense. He flips to another random page, and this is more like it. At least these are recognizable mathematical symbols, even though they're from Earth's early 20th century, and why would his other use this rather limited mathematical language for these types of calculations - until the Doctor realizes that he's looking at a recipe for pancakes, carefully spelled out in mathematical equations.
The Doctor flips the journal shut. "Yeah, no, I think we'll have to redo those, um, tests." He's quite sure that even if he found a page filled with actual calculations and lab results on the strange radiation in his other's notes from that time, they'd be rather unreliable. "We'll need to try and get you to emit some more of those particles. Do you, um, want to try it the way it worked before, or do you know another way?" Merging his mind with his other to communicate with his other's TARDIS had been an interesting experience, but he's not sure if it feels like something they should be doing again such a short time after. If his other doesn't know a different way to create the radiation, though, he will go ahead with the merge. He's pretty sure this radiation thing is significant.