Doctor Who Eighth Doctor Adventures 51 by The Adventuress of Henrietta Street (Lawrence Miles) (v1.1)

Author:The Adventuress of Henrietta Street (Lawrence Miles) (v1.1)
Format: epub

and more time with Fitz: not simply talking, but communicating in a way that bordered on the flirtatious. This didn’t seem at all in character for Juliette, and Anji was apparently reminded of the way in which the women of the House would banter with their clients before discussing money Had Juliette been trying to seduce Fitz? It’s not impossible. However, it’s more likely that Juliette was testing out her social skills, seeing whether she could deal with men the way her elders in the House did. Fitz seems to have been quite uncomfortable with this new, laughing, tactile version of Juliette. It’s easy to get the impression that he liked the attention, but didn’t know what to do with it. Anji grew resentful, so it’s at least feasible she was jealous. So Anji was awake and alert when Juliette had her ‘waking dream’, and followed the girl, at a discreet distance, as she left the House. And Anji later made one final significant observation about Juliette’s preparations. She noted that once Juliette had slipped on her shift in the moonlit bedroom, she took Scarlette’s glass charm from the dressing table to hang around her neck. Then she paused, took it off again, and put it back in its place. The suggestion is that Juliette felt it was time for her to use her own weapons. Anji was still following her, at half a street’s length, when Juliette arrived at Cranbourn Street. This was a street to the west of Covent Garden, which had no real reputation but was often haunted by drunks and other ‘gentlemen’ in the small hours of the morning. Anji watched as Juliette made her way down the cobbled streets, in the yellow light that must have filled the pavements from the few lamps still lit. There may have been prostitutes working on the street, though it was common in Covent Garden for women of the night to hunt in packs rather than alone, so they would have passed through the street wave by wave instead of loitering in the doorways. Anji later recalled that Juliette looked ‘uncertain, but not scared’. Australian Aboriginals in puberty perform the ritual called ‘walkabout’, in which they’re left to wander the desert outback with nothing but their wits to help them survive, an initiation designed to put the adolescent ‘in tune’ with his world through painful experience. Here on the streets of London, Juliette was undergoing her own, very English, kind of walkabout. Little wonder that Anji believed this was part of some secret witchery, which the Doctor didn’t couldn’t - know about. Halfway along Cranbourn Street, Juliette was stopped by a man whom Anji describes as looking ‘shifty’. He seems to have been of the professional classes, though not overly rich. Anji ducked into the doorway of what she took to be a closed shop, and was too far away to hear the conversation: a pity, because it might have revealed much about Juliette’s intentions. All Anji could report was that they talked for a few moments, apparently in a civil manner.

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