one of the reasons i really love the first days of phaidon is because it's not Leela/Narvin* at its core but Leela/Narvin/Romana. It'd be easy for it to be Leela/Narvin since those two are you know, actually there, but it makes it very clear that these two are two parts of a whole. they are closer to whole now that they are together, that they no longer feel all alone in the universe, but between them there is, and will always be, Romana.
*slashes used as shorthand for 'whatever the fuck those idiots have got going on'

















