Doctor Who: BBC Past Doctor Adventures [048] - Instruments of Darkness by Gary Russell

Author:Gary Russell
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Science-Fiction - Doctor Who
ISBN: 9780563538288
Publisher: BBC Books
Published: 2001-11-13T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Dreaming in Colour

Ciara was dreaming. Again.

She saw a house – one she recognised. A big manor house, down in Sussex. She saw the thin-faced man with a scar engulfed in flames, screaming as layers of artificial components were stripped and melted from his body before what was left of his natural form boiled and bubbled away.

She saw a huge woman in a medical uniform, white suit, white apron, white cap. She saw the woman split down the middle to reveal three glowing purple spheres of pulsating light.

The light spheres talked to Ciara, calling to her before they were snuffed out by a stronger mental force. She saw them darken and shatter under the onslaught, and felt their connection to her mind snap, freeing her from their domination. They were linked to the prosthetics that lined her own body – the fake skin, fake nerves, built-in energy gun, augmented sight and hearing. And basic telepathic powers.

She was free of the spheres, but still had their technology. She was free of their domination, but now had her conscience. She was free of their evil, but still had the guilt.

And she awoke with a start. Cellian was on the next bed, untroubled. Their charges slept in the rooms below, presumably also untroubled. But at the foot of her bed, wrapped in a hospital blanket, was the shivering, sweating form of a young human male coming out of a self-induced coma.

The one she and Cellian had collected from Mr Malvern earlier.

She almost recognised the face. Something about it touched her memory. But it was the mind she was reading, the mind that in sleep had connected with hers.

It was the same mind that had destroyed the energy spheres and given her back her existence.

And it was a mind searching for the person she was searching for. The mind had screamed in its unconscious state just one word.

Doctor.

Just as hers had last night.

He was here. On Earth. And this boy might… must… help draw the Doctor to them.

The Doctor would bring salvation. The Doctor would understand what was being attempted now.

And hopefully, he would provide the means to redemption.

The boy twisted once more in his comatose state before mercifully dropping into a fitful, deep but wholly normal sleep.

Ciara found herself watching him for the next few hours until the dawn began and heralded 31 December 1993.

And the beginning of the end of everything…

For John Doe, the day began in anger. Days frequently did, it has to be pointed out, but this one was slightly different. The anger wasn’t directed at Christophe Brel and his Network employees. It wasn’t directed at the ESPnets and their failure to find the Magnate’s missing person.

Nor was it directed at the cold tea which he had knocked over in his waking and which was spreading over his grey desk.

It was directed at himself and, more importantly, his dreams.

It had to be something to do with being in close proximity to the ESPnets for so long – maybe they were accidentally breaking down the barriers in his mind.

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