Doctor Who - The Darksmith Legacy - 08 - The Pictures of Emptiness by Jacqueline Rayner

Author:Jacqueline Rayner
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Doctor Who (Fictitious Character) - Fiction, Children's Stories
ISBN: 9781405905206
Publisher: BBC BOOKS
Published: 2009-07-30T07:00:00+00:00

Trading Places

Having sat Des on a chair, the Doctor started looking for clues. An address book was full of names, bulging with bits of paper and business cards pushed in at the appropriate pages, but he didn't think any of that would help.

There was a diary, though. The Doctor turned to the right page. Morning: Jason Dungeon. Then in the afternoon, the single phrase 'Market Square'.

If this mysterious w o m a n was keeping Des's appointments for him, perhaps that's where she could be found. But there was no further clue —

no house number, no town name. A quick flick through Des's address book revealed no one who lived in a market square. The Doctor's only hope was that it was local.

He left the studio and looked around him, hopelessly hoping to see a big sign saying 'Market Square this way'. There wasn't, of course, but he spied a newsagent's shop instead and popped inside.

He gave the elderly woman behind the counter one of his most charming grins. 'Sorry to bother you,' he said, 'but can you tell me if there's a market square nearby?'

She frowned at him. 'Market? There's no market around here. There's the square with the statue of the man in it, if that's what you're wanting.'

The Doctor suspected it wasn't, but obtained directions anyway. 'But it's definitely not called

'Market Square"?' he confirmed.

'What, like off the telly? No.'

The Doctor was halfway through the door when this registered. He backed up. 'Off the telly"?'

'You know, the soap.'

'Actually,' the Doctor told her, "I don't know.'

She gestured behind him. He turned to find a rack stuffed full of magazines, and when he plucked out the nearest one he saw it had 'Market Square: Now Four Nights a Week!' written on the cover. He flicked through it, spotting the name 'Des Martin'

as a credit under several pictures.

'It's a soap opera!' he realized.

The shopkeeper didn't know where the soap was filmed, apart from that it was somewhere in London, but was extremely happy to sell the Doctor copies of Market Square Monthly, Inside Telly, Television Show Times and Soap Choice. The Doctor sat on a bench outside and read them all in forty-five seconds, learning a lot about the everyday lives of supposedly ordinary folk, many of them Australian.

He also tried to pick up every scrap of information that might help him discover where Market Square was filmed...

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