No need to apologize. It's just like home. [Time Lords have a penchant for making speeches.]

It is difficult being of the eldest race, surrounded by...newcomers. The young races think they have all the answers. They're so sure of themselves, believe they don't need guidance or restraint.

My people used to be powerful, the pinnacle of civilization and the foremost Temporal Power in the cosmos. Now my civilization is being slowly torn down, piece by piece.