Doctor Who BBC856 - The Book of the Still by The Book of the Still

Author:The Book of the Still
Language: eng
Format: epub

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Chapter Fourteen

Bad Guys Wear Black Hats

The ship hung above the city, soot falling like black snow from its surface. Steam vented menacingly, scattering the clouds of bats that had come to investigate.

Lebensweltians and off‐worlders were flocking from their homes and hotels to see the huge ship. The sky was darkening towards night and the lack of light pollution from the city allowed the population to pick out the encrusted detail on the burnt and blackened underside of the ship – it glistened in places as if it had been grown; in other sections the ship resembled the inside of an oven that had never been cleaned. The smell from the soot and the venting had the tang of overdone carbon about it.

The ship was of no recognisable design, not that they could check the design against any in the city databanks, seeing as the city databanks had shut down with everything else. The Mayor’s office wanted to send sentinels up to investigate the ship, but of course, none of those were working either.

As the Lebensweltians looked up at the ship that was fading into the darkness, many of them wondered if the responsibility for the power outages rested with the curious new visitor. Be a bit of a coincidence if it didn’t, many others answered.

The rest of the population, mostly off‐world tourists it had to be said, had lost the plot somewhat, and, with no sentinels or armed police to keep them in order, had gone on a rampage.

The ship hung silently above the chaos, fires from burning buildings reflecting dully off the underside of its hull.

Night fell.

In the morning, the ship was still there, like a blood‐black scab over a wound in the sky.

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