Rose was trying very hard to concentrate on her book.

It was an interesting book too, she didn't often find interesting books in the TARDIS library, since most of it was quantum physics and the geography of the Xenofila IV galaxy, but the TARDIS herself had supplied Rose with a completely non-alien English novel which she'd just been getting into. But the Doctor was strolling around the console flipping buttons probably just to look impressive, and rambling on about something. Usually Rose attempted to listen for a few seconds before zoning out, but this time, she wasn't even trying to listen but his words kept floating over to her.

"…and so then I said to Henry Ford that of course he couldn't build that car out of glue, I often don't interfere with inventors, but his idea was just so-…"

She gnashed her teeth, bringing the book closer to her face, as if that would block out the rambling Doctor. Her eyes darted over the words but…she'd read that sentence before, hadn't she?

"…I mean, of course the intergalactic pig was legal and everything but-…"

She took a deep breath, letting it out in a sort of grumpy snort, which the Doctor failed to notice. She finally digested the previous sentence and moved onto the next one: The black wolf stood out utterly against the snow, but it wasn't trying to be stealthy with its advance on them anyway…

"…Juklo wasn't at all happy with that, but who would be anyway? It was in the ancient scripts that the black hole would swallow up that dwarf star and I could have told him at the time it would do that anyway, but he didn't pay any attention so…"

The black wolf stood out utterly against the snow, but it wasn't trying to be stealthy with its advance on them anyway, it just approached leisurely in plain sight…

"…So good old Isis was stuck without her pyramid because the Yaxleys 'hijacked' it, so to speak. You should have seen the fit she threw, Rose, it was the funniest thing but then of course…"

The black wolf stood out utterly against the snow, but it wasn't trying to be stealthy with its advance on them anyway, it just approached leisurely in plain sight, knowing they wouldn't try to run. And they didn't.

"I mean, come on, as if Gikla would have stood for that kind of rebelliousness anyway—OWW! Rose, did you just throw a book at me?"