Doctor Who: The Book of the Still by Paul Ebbs

Author:Paul Ebbs
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Science-Fiction:Doctor Who
ISBN: 9780563538516
Publisher: BBC Worldwide
Published: 2002-05-01T10:00:00+00:00

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‘I’ve never seen anything like it.’ The Doctor looked up at the belly of the ship, squinting to make out more detail in the early morning light. ‘But that doesn’t say much; I haven’t really seen that many star ships in the last hundred years. If we could get into the TARDIS perhaps we could find a book to look it up in.’

Anji looked down at her broken and torn fingernails and let out a depressed sigh, thinking again about the fruitless hour they had spent again trying to roll the TARDIS over to expose the doors. ‘Haven’t you ever thought of putting a fire escape in this thing?’

‘Never really needed one,’ the Doctor said, leaning against the TARDIS and wiping the sweat from his forehead. ‘But I’ll seriously consider putting one in at a later date.’

The Doctor had recovered well after a night sleeping in the shadow of the TARDIS. He seemed to draw strength from just being near its comforting hum and familiar shape. Anji hadn’t slept at all. Every time she’d tried to sleep, all that she could think about was the ship that hung above them and the cloying aroma of burnt things that was emanating from it. The Doctor had been far too tired to consider the ship last night, but now as dawn had risen and Rhian had returned from the city with tales of panic and riots, he was much more interested.

Rhian had gone to try to get food and something to drink. She had returned empty-handed, too afraid to go alone into the city proper with the crowds of rioters still rampaging through the streets, burning and looting.

‘Well you could have looted us something to drink,’ said Anji unhelpfully. The Doctor had admonished her gently and led them into the city to get a better look at the ship.

Anji did not appreciate being admonished at the best of times and certainly not in front of Velma, so she lagged silently behind as Rhian and the Doctor talked about various forms of temporal homeostasis. How could they be discussing academic rubbish like that when Fitz had been stolen?!

The Doctor had relayed as much as he could about the activities of Darlow, Svadhisthana and Gimcrack (Anji definitely preferred her names for them) and the business that they were involved in. Fitz had got himself into some no-brainer situations in the past but this one was the King, Queen, Jack and Ace. This was theeeeeee royal flush. What could he have been thinking? An escort agency... no wait, she knew exactly what he’d been thinking. So that Fitz could get his jollies, he’d put them all at risk and Anji had been shot at.

Lots.

And now they had to find a way off Lebenswelt and find Fitz, who had been stolen by his client. Anji envisioned a fair amount of shooting to come and plenty of it was going to be in her direction.

The Doctor and Rhian had finished their cultural and spiritual exploration of the nature of natural time travel and were now discussing the ship.

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