Doctor Who: Death and Diplomacy by Dave Stone

Author:Dave Stone
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Science-Fiction:Doctor Who
ISBN: 9780426204688
Publisher: Doctor Who Books
Published: 1996-05-15T10:00:00+00:00

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Chapter Seventeen

Benny Surprise Summerfield woke in a bedroom of a Makrath boarding warren with a head like an inviable biological experiment and a sense of impending doom. Not quite in the sense that something horrible is going to happen – because a nasty little voice inside you is saying that it already has happened. It’s just that you’re going to remember it in a moment.

She half slid, half fell, from the bed and stumbled over to the wash‐stand – she had given up trying to see her environment in qualified terms, a quasi‐this, an analogue of that. True, the bed consisted of swirls of what appeared to be chiffon and felt like silk suspended by some form of static, springy anti‐gravity field rather than a mattress; true the basin appeared to be semi‐organic and evolved rather than manufactured. But given a carbon‐based, bipedal, broadly humanoid lifeform there are certain basic constants the universe over, and a bed was something you slept in and a wash‐stand was something that you washed in, like as not with plumbing.

The plumbing gurgled and glopped as she ran water over her wrists from the tubular and slightly dubious‐looking spigot; the sound reverberated through her head as though in an echo chamber via ears stuffed with cotton wadding soaked with ether. An idea was forming in her head and Benny put it together piece by laborious piece. Something to do with the night before.

Ah, yes. That was it.

A bed was something you slept in, and a wash‐stand was something you washed in, and drinks were something you got pissed out of your head on and then did something incredibly stupid that you regretted for the rest of your pitiful, sad and extraordinarily miserable life.

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