Emergency Rope Binding

Coarse hemp rope used to secure the Master’s wrists against the chamber’s rough stone during the Doctors’ counter-maneuver. The strands chafe his skin as he struggles, the rope’s frayed ends dangling beside the Time Lord gauntlet embedded in his palm. Tegan and Sarah maintain taut tension on the loops, their grip the only thing preventing his fingers from reactivating Rassilon’s controls. The binding leaves raw red lines when eventually loosened, a visible indictment of their desperation.