Doctor Who Eighth Doctor Adventures 62 by The Domino Effect

Author:The Domino Effect
Format: epub

Friday, April 1 8, 2003 97 ‘Summon our best scientists. They shall examine their artefact, see if they can breach its interior, learn its secrets.’ He glanced around the chamber. The others nodded their agreement. The Pentarch smoothed down his moustache with a thumb and forefinger before speaking. ‘Was there something else?’ The adjutant completed the Oracle’s latest prophecy. The Pentarch smiled. ‘Our security forces in Edinburgh have reports about the active terrorists in the city. The confessor - he said one of his associates was called the Doctor. It seems this man liberated the other associate from a hospital at dawn. The Doctor claims to be the owner of the blue box. He must be this Elemental of which the Oracle speaks. The Doctor knows his property has been brought to London. He will come looking for it.’ The adjutant nodded. ‘I will have the blue box moved to a laboratory for testing by the scientists. Britannia rules eternal!’ It was dark when the Doctor, Anji and Hannah climbed into the back of the lorry. Hannah’s friend Colin was transporting a crop of carrots to Manchester. Erom there the trio hoped to hitch another ride south to London. They rearranged the sacks of vegetables to create a hiding place for themselves among the produce, close to the driver’s cab. ‘Not the most elegant or comfortable way to travel,’ Anji said with a grimace as they went over a pothole in the road. ‘How long will it take us?’ ‘We should be in Manchester by midnight,’ Hannah replied. ‘If we get lucky, we could be in London by dawn tomorrow’ The Doctor had been working on enlarging a hole in one of the sacks. He pulled a carrot out and began munching on one end. ‘Hannah, during the meeting last night, one of your friends mentioned a suppressed document called the shroud. What do you know about it?’ ‘Only what the professor told me.’ She paused, remembering her dead mentor. ‘It’s a legend among radical students and lecturers, those who think science should be used to improve everyone’s lives.’ ‘Eirst I’ve heard of it,’ Anji said. ‘Tell me more.’ ‘If you believe the legend, decades ago there was a genius at one of the universities in England. He developed several theories about numbers and how conundrums involving numbers could be solved.’ ‘Code breaking, cryptography, that sort of thing?’ the Doctor asked. ‘I think so, yes. Apparently some of the ideas he created were later very important during the war.’

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