A lot of people thought the Marion and Kristoph series would end with the Alliance, which was posted exactly a year after the first story had been posted at the start of 2006. When I started the series, I hadn’t really planned that far ahead, but it was clear that the readers wanted more, so on the series goes. There must be an end, eventually. In some ways, it has already been written. I’ve already covered Marion’s death in an Unfinished Business story and Chrístõ has mentioned many times that she died when he was only six years old.

But that is still far off. And right now Marion is newly married and embarking upon the rest of her life. This is a typical day in which she wakes to find Kristoph already meditating in his special room. She takes a luxurious bath and chooses her clothes for the day. She has breakfast with her husband and he leaves for his office.

Marion spends her morning alone in her private rooms, then entertains Lily and Aineytta for the afternoon. They talk about the things women always talk about. Sex is one of the subjects, of course!

She looks like a woman who has known the complete love of a Time Lord.”
“She does, Aineytta agreed. “My son takes after his father in that respect, I think.”
Marion blushed but she could not disagree with either of them. It had been a very passionate honeymoon.

Later, Marion and Kristoph eat dinner together and go to bed, where they make love passionately.

Yes, life on Gallifrey is not much different to life anywhere else. Most of the readership seem to like that. One or two people have questioned whether life on another world would be so mundane. Gallifrey on the occasions when it was seen on Doctor Who, always seemed a bit more exotic than that.

But actually, I don’t think so. I think the everyday life on Gallifrey would be much the same as anywhere else. Grand ceremonies and rituals are for special occasions. The rest of the time, people live in houses, they entertain each other. They go to the office. They go home. They eat dinner and make love.

That’s how the universe works.