Doctor Who Eighth Doctor Adventures 63 by Reckless Engineering (Nick Walters) (v1.0)

Author:Reckless Engineering (Nick Walters) (v1.0)
Format: epub

and tongue. I - he - spoke in an urgent mutter, covering his - my - lips with my hand. What he said was this: I find this as unpleasant as you and desire to keep such occurrences to a minimum. But if I have to, I can and will possess you. I am Watchlar of the Eternium. We have a task to do - which I am sure you must remember. Now I am going to return control of this body to you. I assume your co-operation. And then suddenly I was back in my own mind.’ He paused again. Aboetta realised that her hands were trembling, so she clasped them together. ‘This being, this Watchlar, is it in your mind now?’ Malahyde smiled. ‘You’ll see what happened when I get to the end of the story. ‘It was a strange experience, sharing mind and body with another being. I could feel Watchlar’s presence there the whole time, at the back of my mind - not as a physical sensation, but as a kind of persistent memory. Say, one is in debt, and one’s creditors are beginning to threaten one’s life. You spend an evening at the theatre - you have read about the theatre, Aboetta? - so you become wrapped up in the experience, forget your woes. But the moment the curtain falls for the interval, the moment the distraction ends, the memory comes slamming hack and with it the feeling of helplessness and panic. That it what it was like. Watchlar and I were together - for better or for worse closer than any man or wife. ‘When I got home, he filled my head with details of this machine. And I began to realise the impossibility of the task. It wasn’t so much the complexity - Watchlar would guide me - but the cost. Materials I had never heard of, processes not yet devised by man - it was beyond my means. But was the human race to fall because of a lack of funds? And then the riots began.’ Malahyde fell silent once more. ‘Riots?’ prompted Aboetta. ‘Something to do with political reform.’ Malahyde waved a hand dismissively. ‘I didn’t care about the cause then, and now it is less than irrelevant. But at the time, those riots seemed to endorse the Eternines’ warning about the fall of humanity. If I wasn’t convinced before, I certainly was then. Convinced - and terrified. What a burden to shoulder - saving the entire future of Mankind! I must confess I lost control for a while. I tried to escape from Watchlar - but how do you escape from something that lives within your own head? I even tried to kill myself, by leaping from bridges, wading into the river 115

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