Doctor Who - Target Novelisations - 095 - The Awakening by Eric Pringle

Author:Eric Pringle
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Science Fiction, General, Fiction
ISBN: 9780426201588
Publisher: Carol Pub Group
Published: 1985-05-31T07:00:00+00:00

Willow snatched up her old dress from the chair and rolled it into a ball and crushed it in his hands. ‘What are you doing?’ she cried.

‘Those are your clothes now,’ Willow smirked,

‘compliments of Sir George Hutchinson.’ He headed for the door again, then hesitated, turned in the doorway and dropped his bombshell with conspicuous glee. ‘You’re our Queen of the May,’ he smiled.

‘What?’

Tegan was dumbfounded. Willow closed the door and locked it behind him. Tegan stood there for a long time, staring at the blank door.

The Doctor stormed up the steps from the passage and ran through the vestry to the church, driven by questions and theories and a host of ideas, some of which were starting to click into place, slotting comfortably into each other like the pieces of a jigsaw, to make the beginnings of a sensible pattern.

However, there were still a lot of pieces missing, and the Doctor could not be certain that the way he was building up the ones that he had was correct. There could be a hundred alternatives; to whittle them down he needed more information, more clues. He headed for the pulpit and its carving, but his attention was attracted by that crack in the wall. It was wider, and the pile of rubble underneath it was larger.

Something was happening inside the wall. The Doctor stared at the crack, puzzled by it, then he hurried over to the stained glass window, and peered up at that, and at the pile of collapsed stone and heavy beams which littered the floor beneath it.

He was still standing there with pursed lips and a puzzled expression when Will and Jane caught him up.

‘Slow down!’ Jane pleaded. Gasping for breath, she held out the black substance as if it was eating her – and at last asked the question which had been burning in her mind.

‘What do you mean, this is from the planet Raaga?’

The Doctor did not answer immediately. Instead, he went back to look again at the pulpit and the cracked wall.

He bent to examine the carving, and then told her, in an urgent voice which forbade argument.

‘I mean precisely what I say,’ he said. ‘The Terileptils mine Tinclavic for more or less exclusive use by the people of Hakol ...’ Quite suddenly he softened and turned to Jane with an amused smile, knowing well the effect his words would be having on her. ‘That’s in the star system Rifler, you know.’

Jane’s eyes were wide with disbelief. ‘Oh, no,’ she cried out in despair, ‘I’ve escaped from one mad man only to find another. Do you expect me to believe what you’re saying?’

The Doctor sat down in the front pew and regarded her steadily. ‘You take that sample to any metallurgist,’ he suggested. ‘They’ll confirm it isn’t of this planet.’

Now it was Jane’s turn to study the Doctor in silence.

Will, too, was quiet; he rubbed his chin in bafflement and wonder, for this was a conversation stuffed with words he’d never heard of.

Finally, responding to the Doctor’s serious and unshaking gaze, Jane ventured to speak.

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