Doctor Who Eighth Doctor Adventures 28 by The Taking of Planet 5 (Simon Bucher-Jones & Mark Clapham) (v1.0)

Author:The Taking of Planet 5 (Simon Bucher-Jones & Mark Clapham) (v1.0)
Format: epub

He didn’t want to think about the next. The taste now. The taste had been like leather, like sucking on the fringes of a leather bookmark absent-mindedly. Anyone might do that. There now, the taste wasn’t that bad. He could manage that, see how it might be tolerable. It had been the taste that changed first, he was sure of it. Then the texture and the shape of the cigarette had altered as it had torn itself away from him, becoming part of the thing he didn’t want to face. No, being revealed as always having been part of the other, of the alien. The alien that was whipping his face with fine wire fingers, its arms turning into frozen branch sculptures. The Elder Thing that was howling in a voice that he could barely hear. The Elder Thing whose microwave voice might be cooking him from the inside out. Worse than that, there was another in the room as well. From its slight difference in shape he guessed it was Holsred, the nervy kid who had been going to beat him up. How long had he been there? All the time? Shielded by the illusions? What had he seen? What the hell had Compassion seen? Fitz forced himself to react. As Holsred’s eyes fixed on the spasming of his fellow creature, three forward and two arching over his flat starfish head, Fitz did what he did best. Get away on his toes. Ostrev was a veteran of almost twenty missions. The normal survival curve ended with one out of a thousand passing the fifteen-mission point. It could have been chance, but he liked to think it was skill. So he entered the room cautiously and peered through the clouds of burnt Time Lord flesh, with his weapons primed and ready. Secretly he would be quite glad if the Doctor had given that dusty archivehound Allopta a bloody nose. One of his earliest post-Loom memories had been of a gang of hard-bitten inductees sharing a banned copy of Doctor ? - all proper names had been auto-edited out of bases’ message system for reasons of war security, and even the downloaded underground flimsies hadn’t been free of the software - In an Exciting Adventure With the Enemy. If anyone was going to kill the Doctor, it 122

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