Doctor Who MA31 - A Device of Death by Christopher Bulis

Author:Christopher Bulis
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2011-07-13T02:22:53+00:00

17

Alarms and Excursions

he disorder in the storage room was peculiarly localized, Cara o

T bserved.

The Doctor’s space pod seemed to have been knocked off its supporting trestles, and two freestanding shelving stacks had apparently been pushed over on either side of it, so that they fell outwards, spilling their contents across the floor. The cause remained a mystery. It was no more damage than a man could have done in a minute, except that everything indicated it had occurred when the room was unoccupied and securely locked. The Doctor poked around the remains moodily with the toes of his boots, his hands thrust deep into the pockets of his jacket. He wore a preoccupied scowl and rolled his lower lip thoughtfully.

‘I just thought you ought to know, because your property also seems to have been disturbed, but it doesn’t seem to be damaged,’ Cara explained. ‘I know you’ve been in to look at the pod quite often. Has it brought back any more memories yet?’

‘Not yet, but I feel it represents something important. And there’s still a name I can’t remember. I feel if I knew what it was everything else would fit into place, and then I could find my friends.’ He looked at the pod again. ‘Oddly enough I had a dream about it last night.’

‘Is that odd? We all dream. Uh, of course, I was forgetting again. What was it about?’

‘My friends were calling to me. “Turn it on its head,” I think they were saying. Then there was this pod and figures in long robes whose names I thought I ought to know. They were speaking to me but this time I couldn’t hear their words. Then a flashing light, and an image of a blue box which seemed very important.’

‘I think there’s a fairly standard cryptic association of images for a dream. It could have been worse, believe me,’ she added with the voice of bitter experience. ‘Most of it’s anxiety and unfounded guilt, probably, but the rest might just be nonsense. Try not to worry about it. Talking of nonsense, how’s that device I can’t make head or tail of coming along?

When are you going to let us know what it actually does?’

The Doctor looked at her thoughtfully, then drew her aside from the lab assistants who were restacking the shelves. ‘Well, if you’ll give me a hand you might see it working very soon.

There’s something about Deepcity that I have to know, but I’m sure Director Kambril, for his own reasons, won’t want me to find out.’

‘Has this got anything to do with that ridiculous performance in the corridor the other night?’

‘It does as it happens. I’d like to take a look inside the secure files room without anybody peering over my shoulder.’

‘Doctor, you can hardly expect me to help you break security. Those files are kept there for a very good reason –’

‘Did I say I wanted the files? I promise I won’t interfere with them in any way. It’s the room itself that I want to examine.

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