Doctor Who: Greatest Show in the Galaxy by Stephen Wyatt

Author:Stephen Wyatt
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Science-Fiction:Doctor Who
ISBN: 9780426203414
Publisher: Target Books
Published: 1989-01-01T19:32:25.887704+00:00

‘after you, no, after you’ game it was impossible to escape from.

Ace became angrier by the moment. She could see the man was harmless but this really wasn’t a time for games.

Indeed it wasn’t. She felt a strong hand on her shoulder.

The Chief Clown stood behind her, holding her in a vice-like grip. The red gash of a mouth spread into an ugly smile. ‘That’ll do, Deadbeat,’ he commanded and the other man fell back. Two robotic clowns came up and, at the Chief Clown’s command, seized her. ‘Let me entertain you,’ he purred as they dragged her along. But Ace did not really believe for a moment that what the Chief Clown meant by entertainment was what anybody else meant by it, And she had been doing so well!

‘Calling the Doctor! Calling the Doctor! There’s no escape.

Repeat. There’s no escape!’

The Ringmaster’s voice followed them wherever they ran. There was no doubt that their escape had been discovered. Their only hope was that nobody had any idea which direction they had taken. However, the repetition of the announcement made the Doctor cross. ‘I do wish they would stop saying that,’ he grumbled. ‘I heard the first time.’

They had been running without any plan, hoping to find a way out to the open air, but now it seemed they had entered a very different part of the circus. Older, darker, more mysterious. Then Mags pointed excitedly ahead of them.

There was an arch there, an old stone arch, incongruous in a way after the flimsiness of the tent walls. Beyond it loomed dark corridors of stone. They had entered a new world all of a sudden, or, more accurately, an old world.

For the arch with its ancient hieroglyphic decorations seemed to belong to an earlier and more mystic age.

The Doctor examined the inscriptions on the arch more closely. ‘Extraordinary,’ he murmured. ‘These are the same kind of stones that stand in the Big Top itself.’ He furrowed his brow. ‘Where can they come from?’

Mags gave him a strange look. ‘Maybe they were always here.’

‘That thought,’ returned the Doctor gravely, ‘had also occurred to me.’ But then he noticed a change come over Mags. A haunted look came into her eyes and her body tensed as she pointed up to a sign cut into the top of the arch. ‘Do you see it?’

‘See what?’

‘That moon sign.’ She could barely get the words out.

Now the Doctor saw what she had seen. Cut into the stone and inlaid with silver was a crescent moon, and, next to it, emerging from the clouds, a full moon.

The Doctor was immediately alert and concerned. ‘Why does that worry you? Tell me.’

But Mags either could or would not. ‘We should get on, Doctor,’ she insisted, forcing her eyes away from the moon symbols. And, indeed, over the loudspeakers came the Ringmaster’s voice once more.

‘Calling the Doctor. There’s no escape.’

The Doctor passed under the arch and somehow Mags found the nerve to follow him. ‘Will those people never take “no” for an answer?’ the Doctor grumbled.

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