[Unsettling as it was, this couldn't ... be related, could it? Color draining from the world wasn't exactly something she'd ever heard of or seen anywhere else, but if it was anything related to the Darkness- the stars disappearing, the whole of reality collapsing... Maybe an echo? But wouldn't it have corrected itself?

And more importantly, though she was doing a bang-up job of fighting off the initial panic (anger was easier to fall into, anyway)... maybe figuring out where the Doctor was, if she could get back to him or if he could get here or ... Rose wasn't sure. But if she had suddenly gone missing back home, she would bet her life he'd be looking for a way to find her.]

S'always one thing after the other. [Right then.] I'm guessin' anyone who knows me's gonna recognize my voice, an' if you do, I'd appreciate you sayin' something.