"Ta-da? Really? This is a ta-da moment?" How many times did he tell Theta that wasn't an answer to anything. It took him months to convince him to stop using it in exam questions and now this. Not a ta-da moment, more a moment where Koschei wanted to freak out and panic a little, not be amazing by the Doctor's special brand of whimsy and madness. "You're erased my mind and you think you can say ta-da!"

Yes, he was hinging on hysteria on that last bit because for some reason, it sounded very much like the Doctor had been playing in his mind and deleted half his history. His precious future. How the hell did he even manage to do that? "Help me? How is this helping? You've nuked my mind!" Koschei snapped, stumbling to his feet with a nervous and horrified look on his face. "Why the hell did you even try to fix my mind? You failed telepathy! And every course that involved fixing!"