Doctor Who: Target - Novelisations [118] - The Sensorites by Nigel Robinson

Author:Nigel Robinson
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Science-Fiction - Doctor Who
ISBN: 9780426202950
Publisher: Target Books
Published: 1987-07-12T22:00:00+00:00

8

Into the Darkness

Carol looked admiringly at the Doctor: she had a lot to thank him for. Not only had he rescued her from the Sensorites’ mental assaults, teaching her to face her fear rather than hide from it, but he had also arranged for John’s treatment; and now that he had found a cure for the Sensorites’ disease it seemed that he had even won them back their freedom. He was quite simply the most extraordinary man she had ever met.

She wondered just how old he really was. He could deliver abuse and criticism like any crotchety old man; and the next moment he would approach a new and apparently insuperable problem with all the unbridled enthusiasm of a little boy. Beneath his thick white mane of hair his face was lined and ancient. But in his firm blue eyes there sparked the mischievous twinkle of youth, like two bright faraway stars in he night sky at home.

But there was something else in his eyes too, something which he shared with his granddaughter, Susan. Carol found it hard to define but it was a deep strangeness, an otherworldliness, something which set them apart from everyone else. Just who were the Doctor and Susan? Where had they come from? And, for that matter, where were they going?

Carol smiled at him. ‘You’re tired out, Doctor,’ she said.

‘It’s a happy tiredness, my dear,’ he sighed and eased himself out of his seat to cross over to where John was still strapped to the Sensorites’ mind restorer, slipping in and out of consciousness. There were now but a few streaks of white in the astronaut’s otherwise dark hair.

‘He’s improving,’ said Carol in response to the Doctor’s unspoken question. ‘But sometimes he goes back to that old state of confusion.’

‘Well, you must expect that. It will take some time but he will be cured. The mind is a very delicate thing, you know.’

At that moment the Senior Scientist entered the room, holding a jar containing a solution of the antidote. The Doctor uncorked the bottle and took a cursory sniff at the contents.

‘Excellent, my friend,’ he said to the Senior Scientist.

‘Make this up in large quantities and see that all your people who are ill get it. And take this to my granddaughter, Susan.’

‘I shall send a messenger immediately,’ said the Sensorite and left the room with the bottle.

The Doctor turned back to Carol. ‘Now we shall soon be off this planet, my dear, once the Sensorites see the efficacy of my cure.’ He rubbed his hands with glee. ‘You know, I was rather baffled by this atropine poisoning at first because it only seemed to appear in one part of the City, in one reservoir at a time. It’s all very curious.

‘But you’ve discovered an antidote now,’ said Carol.

‘What’s the use of worrying over it?’

‘Ah yes, that’s a cure – but why cure something when we can stamp it out altogether, hmm?’

Carol was about to question the Doctor further when John distracted her. He was semiconscious and muttering to himself.

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