Doctor Who: Original Sin by Andy Lane

Author:Andy Lane
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Science-Fiction:Doctor Who
ISBN: 9780426204442
Publisher: Doctor Who Books
Published: 1995-08-15T10:00:00+00:00

‘Proud to meet you,’ he said. ‘Any partner of our son is a friend of ours. Yes, I was an Adjudicator, up till four years ago. It’s a family tradition.’

Now that she knew, she could see it in his eyes: that searching, questioning, devil-may-care expression that could all too easily turn into world-weariness.

As hers had.

‘My father, and his father before him,’ Cwej senior added. ‘Back as far as we care to look. There was a Cwej on the founding panel of Adjudicators, back when they were more like galactic sheriffs. Forrester. Now there’s a familiar name. Could I have served with your dad?’

She shook her head.

‘My father didn’t – well, let’s say I don’t think you’d have met him.’

‘No, I remember what it was,’ he said, grinning. ‘You were squired to Fenn Martle, weren’t you?’

A fist tightened around Forrester’s heart.

‘Yes,’ Cwej’s father continued, oblivious to her expression, ‘he squired me for his first few years on the job. Good lad. Very promising. Whatever happened to him?’

Forrester bit her lip to stop herself saying something she might regret. This was going to be a long day.

The rising sun shone through the window of the darkened office, casting the shadow of the figure across the translucent desk. Information flickered in the depths of the desk – financial, economic, military – but the figure did not react.

Like a spider, the figure waited patiently for those faint, tell-tale vibrations of the web.

As the sun rose, its rosy glow slowly edged across the desk and onto the carpet, casting light into the shadowed recesses of the room. As the figure waited, the sunlight crept, inch by patient inch, further across the office, until it lapped against the foot of a large box.

A large, blue box.

The splash of bright colour attracted the figure’s attention.

‘I’ll enjoy taking you apart, circuit by circuit,’ it murmured.

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