The Time Lords
The ancient spirits slumbered in the ancient forests, and barely noticed the dramatic changes in the humans, and the human genome, with which they were adjacent. They noticed at first, of course, because so many of their kind had been massacred in one of unsung brutalities of the modern world. But now? They didn't care, much. The mycelium of the modern age, the internet, an interconnectedness unrivalled in style and speed for millennium, indeed passed down to us across thousands, indeed hundreds of millions of years, stirred amongst the ancients. While the Time Lords themselves, usually indifferent to the bickering of sovereigns and sovereign nations, the rise and fall of empires and civilisations, were now active again. It wasn't all about the Middle East. It wasn't, really, about anything to do with foreign wars and Zionist entities and all the rest of hoo-hah, the infighting and wars of words, those strange, indeed bizarre conflicts which operated only in a digital...