Doctor Who: Halflife by Mark Michalowski

Author:Mark Michalowski
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub, mobi
Tags: Science-Fiction:Doctor Who
ISBN: 9780563486138
Publisher: Diamond Comic Distributors
Published: 2004-04-28T10:00:00+00:00

intensifying of the nacreous grey of the wall itself. Now that it was closer, she could see detail that hadn’t been visible before: countless tiny sparkles flickered and died, like spinning chips of diamond. Every now and then, a brighter flash would flare at random, as though, as the wall swept across the countryside, it was swallowing up and burning insects.

They were at the barn, its huge door hanging carelessly. The Doctor bundled her inside. It smelt of hay, and the floor rustled beneath her feet. High above her head, she could see the stars peering down at her through the gaps in the roof. How she wished she were up there with them, instead of down here.

She looked around for the Doctor, and saw movement that she assumed was him.

‘Come on!’ he said. ‘Up here!’

She crossed carefully to him, hoping there were no bits of rusty farm machinery, lying in wait for her legs. He found her hand in the darkness and pulled her towards him. There was a moment of sudden, awkward silence, before she heard his voice, close up in her ear.

‘Go on, then!’

‘What?’

He moved her hand and she found the rungs of a rickety wooden ladder, leading up to the hayloft above. Calamee glanced back towards the gaping mouth of the door, as the shimmering, pearly wall swept into the barn, lighting up everything around with an eerie light, like the marbling of sunlight reflected from the surface of a pool.

She felt the Doctor’s hands on her hips, pushing her up the ladder. She slipped on the first rung, and she scrabbled madly to regain her footing, realising that if she didn’t move faster, the Doctor would be caught by the thing.

Suddenly, she realised how bad the Doctor’s position was. She heaved herself up, arm by painful arm, and tried not to panic. Beneath her hands, she felt the ladder vibrating as the Doctor followed her up. Calamee risked a glance down – and felt her skin tingle as the wave swept over her. As it did, she heard the Doctor cry out – and the ladder shook as he fell from it, engulfed by the cold, grey fire.

The Doctor woke to find himself on a bed, head propped up with a pillow, in a silent room, illuminated by a spotlight above him. Looking down across his chest, covered with a soft, padded quilt, he saw an animal curled contentedly on his belly.

A cat. A ginger and white cat with impossibly green eyes. Or yellow.

He’d seen the cat before. No. That wasn’t quite it. Someone else had seen the cat before. Someone. . .

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