[the Doctor is most decidedly not, and he's far from tactile in this incarnation, but he feels far too raw and weary to protest; the gentle touch is, really, a nice contrast to the barrage of violence in his head

he blinks a few times, before he focuses on Rhade, on here and now]

I - other times, other worlds, other battles. I've seen...far too many, in my time. Caused some of them, in fact. Sometimes by accident, sometimes... because it was the only way.