Thank you for reading; I hope you enjoyed it. Yes, I know what you mean; hardcase!Romana as depicted in the EDAs doesn't really sit well with me, if I'm honest, on a sort of instinctive level; it feels wrong to me. I don't think blaming Romana for the war makes any sense at all; it quite clearly started sometime in the 70s; I mean, by the time of Resurrection, the Daleks were talking about assassinating the High Council, when there's no evidence in previous stories that they even knew about Gallifrey, so the Time Lords must have done something to annoy them. Not that Daleks need a reason to be annoyed. Don't get me wrong, Gallifrey was a bad place full of bad people (or painfully misguided people, anyway), apart from the Doctor and Romana of course!, but the Daleks were just bad news. It's very conventional, and I think comes from RTD too, to say the Time War goes back to Genesis of the Daleks. I think it actually goes back to Day of the Daleks; no way would the Time Lords tolerate the Daleks fiddling with history. That's my theory, anyway. :)

Ocean; we Brits are supposed to be an island nation, but not _that much_ of an island, I'll wager. There must be some great Norse poems about the ocean, them being into poetry and ships the way the were, but I'm afraid that's not my field. :D