'What happened to her?'
    'She has just regenerated for the first time.'
    'You are certain?  You know its the first?'
    He nodded again, looking puzzled that Tegan needed to ask a second time.
    Realization only dawned as she spelt it out for him:  'She remembers that much.  So she's not lost all her memories.  Is there anything else in there?'
    The Doctor grimaced, trying to piece together something.  'She was born in Blyledge, one of the Senior Houses of Glorious Gallifrey,' he said after some hesitation.
    'Anything more useful?' Tegan asked, a little bemused.  'Can she remember anything about the house?  Can she describe it?'
    The Doctor closed his eyes, letting the memories come to him.  'The House is old, older than the hill on which it stands.  It is angular.  Dark.  A small dark building beneath an orange sky.  Inside it is large and the walls are white, and a regular circular pattern on the floor.  There is a walled garden in the centre of the House, a quadrangle filled with silver trees.  The birds sing a pretty song and there's always music in the air.  Our youngest play in the courtyard.'
    'Our?' Tegan asked.
    'Their,' the Doctor corrected.  'I'm sorry, it's sometimes difficult to disentangle my thoughts from hers.  She has thirteen children.'  Tegan was shocked by this, until she remembered that Time Lords lived forever, and that, despite her appearance, this woman wasn't really in her early thirties.  'I... can't find their names.  She can't remember the names of her own children.  I should be able to...'  The Doctor seemed lost again.
    'Can she remember anything about the father? Tegan prompted.
    The Doctor said his name, then paused.  'No, no.  Quite impossible,' he declared.
    'You've heard of him?' Tegan asked him.
    'Oh yes, but it's a name I've not heard in a long time.  He was a pioneer and a leader among my people, one of the first Gallifreyans to enter the time vortex after it was discovered.  He came from a family of explorers: he lead an expedition into deep time, returning with charts and trophies from every corner of the universe.  He brought back with him travellers' tales of monsters and lost civilizations.'
    'How long ago was this?'  Tegan asked.
    'That's just it: Patience says that her husband had only recently returned from his journey.  He took her as his wife the very day after his return.  He was hailed as a hero, and many honours were bestowed upon him.  She didn't see much of him at first: he was busy shaping the new future.  He is still caught in the midst of the rebuilding, using the wisdom and experience acquired on his travels, but now he is beginning to find the time to see his family.'
    The Doctor was rattling off the information, while also wearing that puzzled expression of his as he tried to assimilate the information.  Tegan asked him what the matter was.
    'Something terrible has happened here.  To me the Odyssey was thousands of years ago.  Everyone from that time is long dead.  In fact, little survives from that period, including historical records.  While my people honour her husband, they no longer even know his real name.'
    'But you recognized it,' Tegan noted.
    The Doctor faltered.  'I... I did, didn't I?'