Doctor Who and the Underworld by Terrance Dicks

Author:Terrance Dicks [Dicks, Terrance]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Published: 2011-02-05T06:47:46.314463+00:00

They began moving back the way they had come, keeping a wary eye out for Guards. They reached the main tunnel, and the gap in the wall without incident. Soon trey were going through the airlock and back into the ship.

Suddenly Leela pointed downwards. ‘Look, Doctor, blood!’ A scattered line of dots led down the corridor.

Leela drew her knife, and began following the trail. She turned the corner, caught sight of a crouching figure and sprang, bearing her opponent to the floor. They struggled, but Leela soon realised her opponent was putting up only the feeblest resistance. Pinning him down with one hand she held her knife to his throat. ‘Surrender or die!’

‘No... no...’ croaked a feeble voice.

The Doctor came running up. ‘Get off him, Leela, you’re terrifying the poor fellow!’

‘I am?’ Leela released her victim and got up. He didn’t seem much of a foe when you got a good look at him. A skinny, undersized youth dressed in tattered rags, with an ugly wound in his right thigh.

‘He’s wounded, poor chap,’ said the Doctor gently. ‘He is the one we saw running away.’

Their captive was still, crouched quivering on the floor, evidently expecting immediate execution. The Doctor put a hand on his thin shoulders and gently eased him to a sitting position against the wall. ‘It’s all right, old chap, we’re your friends.’

The man looked wonderingly at the Doctor, then cowered back at the sight of Leela standing over him, knife in hand.

The Doctor said, ‘She won’t hurt you. She’s a friend, too. Her name is Leela.’

‘She is strong and fierce,’ muttered the man. ‘Like the Guards.’

The Doctor was examining the wound on the man’s leg.

‘It is bad?’ asked Leela.

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