Destination Prague by Steven Savile

Author:Steven Savile [Savile, Steven]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9781844352531
Amazon: 1844352536
Publisher: Big Finish
Published: 2008-05-28T07:00:00+00:00

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Is it now?’

The Doctor and Romana, accompanied by the strange dwarfish

figure, had retired to a café, and discussed matters over hot cups of

strong black coffee.

‘I believe you’ve asked that before, my friend,’ the Doctor said.

‘I’m still not sure that I understand properly,’ Romana added. ‘You are

the same Kaj Jepperson we spoke with earlier?’

‘Yes,’ the Doctor answered, while the dwarfish figure fussed with his

coffee. ‘But mutated by prolonged exposure to zygma energy. His DNA

helixes separated and recombined incorrectly.’

‘I remember you,’ the small man said, looking confused. ‘But from

before. From the lab. I am not remembering you from now.’ He stopped,

a quizzical expression on his twisted features. ‘How strange.’

‘But when did all of this happen, Doctor? It can’t have been more than

a quarter of an hour since we saw him.’

‘Oh,’ the Doctor said thoughtfully, ‘I suspect it’s been a great deal

longer than that for our friend here.’ He leaned forward, and rested a

hand on the gnarled hand of the figure before them. ‘Tell us, Jepperson.

When does it happen?’

‘The experiment begins,’ the twisted figure answered, his voice

dopplering up and down, ‘it began, it will begin. It malfunctions, throwing

me backwards in time. But I remain tethered to the moment, to the

instant of the accident. My time sense distorts, is distorted, will distort, so

that all moments are one. Now.’

‘How long, Jepperson?’ The Doctor’s mouth drew into a tight line.

‘How long has it been.’

The twisted figure let out a ragged sigh. ‘Fourteen centuries.’

‘Oh, dear.’ Romana covered her mouth with her hand, eyes widening.

‘Unable to distinguish one moment from the next.’

‘Yes, and for nearly one and a half millennia.’ The Doctor glanced

from Romana to the twisted figure before them. ‘An eternal "now".’

‘I wander, lost. I try to communicate, but everyone takes me for mad.

Until Tycho Brahe finds me, found me, will find me. He finds my ability to

describe future events an idle curiosity. Calls me Jepp, keeps me as a

pet.’

The twisted figure of Jepperson looked at the Doctor and Romana for

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