Twisted.

Yes, I am going to be tangential right now, which is to say, I am going to discuss something related to my story, but not directly a part of it, and not tangential in the fact that I will create a divergent timeline with a separate existence for all the players involved in my story, since I did that a year from now.

There exist many wonders throughout the Whole Kind of General Mish-Mash. Things that are simply a sight of beauty, like the Medusa Cascade, or places of absolute pure relaxation and peace, such as the Eye of Orion, or, should one be interested, there are more aesthetically dadaist wonders, such as the Dung Belt of Adoros Epsilon.

This belt is exactly as one would expect from the name.

There are seven inhabited planets in the Adoros Epsilon system. Through some unexplained gravimetric properties of the system, all solid biological waste expelled from the lifeforms in this system is pulled into a large, orbiting belt positioned just beyond the orbit of the fifth world of Adoros Epsilon.

Needless to say, those in the outlying two worlds have no actual contact with the beings on the inner five, and vice-versa.

This phenomenon has given rise to the tourism marketing slogan created by Universal Holidays for Less: "Adoros Epsilon: The Most Mysterious Shit You'll Ever Encounter."

Counted among these odd wonders is the unassumingly named Silver Twist.

The Silver Twist is located just outside of Mutter's Spiral, but separated from everything else by one nano-second. This is interesting, as no matter when you arrive at its location, you are ALWAYS one nano-second early for viewing the Silver Twist.

The reality is, however, this is fortunate.

While the existence of the Silver Twist is known, its origins, make up, and even its properties are not. Not even to the Time Lords.

There are many theories, of course.

Some say that is is the last remnant of an old god, kept there by shear force of will.

Others say it is a separation of the Whole General Kind of Mish-Mash, allowing a peek into the great before if one can only solve the true riddle of how to fully encounter it.

Still others believe that the Silver Twist is the total supply of expired sour cream within the Whole General Kind of Mish-Mash, drawn into this great mass, then finally able to express its supernatural sentience.

Whatever the truth is, no one really can ever know the truth.


Except one being.

It is at this point in my story, I must describe a set of circumstances that is so unlikely, it can best be described as "I just now made this up because it sounds plausible", though it did in fact happen.

A heretofore unknown Time Lady was piloting her Time Travel Capsule in the general vicinity of Mutter's Spiral. Not aimlessly, of course. Her mission was to hijack the lawn furniture of a 21st century businessman named Bill Gates. Said lawn furniture had no intrinsic value, but this particular Time Lady had a bit of an obsession with collecting rare items.

During this time, as she was piloting her TTC, she was also making herself a drink using Benito Mussolini's cappuccino maker.

Interesting thing about Mussolini: He DID, in fact, keep the trains running on time...

But he had no idea how to repair a cappuccino maker.

It exploded.

This knocked the Time Lady into the console of her TARDIS, and, by complete coincidence, FELL into the exact correct controls in the precisely correct order to send her TARDIS straight through the Silver Twist.

The strange and unknowable energies enveloped and tossed her Capsule throughout the Whole General Kind of Mish-Mash and, in the space of an instant, she, her TTC and everything contained within ceased to ever have existed, then snapped back.

The Time Lady, of course, noticed none of this.

She was too busy trying to mop foam out of the Gravitic Anomalizer to notice.

It was at this time, however, a previously perfectly ordinary Gallifreyan Type 65 Time Travel Capsule made a most extraordinary lifestyle choice.