Academy Test: Name the story. Great Intelligence: It was a minor skirmish by the Doctors blood-soaked standards. Not exactly the Time War, but enough to finish him. In the end, it was too much for the old man. Jenny: Blood-soaked? Vastra: The Doctor has been many things, but never blood-soaked! Great Intelligence: Tell that to the leader of the Sycorax, or Solomon the trader, or the Cybermen, or the Daleks. The Doctor lives his life in darker hues, day upon day, and he will have other names before the end: the Storm, the Beast, the Valeyard. Vastra: Even if any of this was true, which I take the liberty of doubting, how did you come by this information? Great Intelligence: I am information. Jenny: You were a mind without a body last time we met. Vastra: And you were supposed to stay that way! Great Intelligence: Alas, I did. [peels away its Walter Simeon face, and its clothes fall to the ground leaving no trace of a body underneath; a Whisper Man steps forward and transforms into a replacement Simeon] As you can see.
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