Doctor Who: The Trial of a Time Lord : The Ultimate Foe by Pip Baker; Jane Baker

Author:Pip Baker; Jane Baker
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Science-Fiction:Doctor Who
ISBN: 9780491031066
Publisher: Target Books
Published: 1988-06-15T10:00:00+00:00

Gradually the clenched knuckles relaxed...

His arms fell leadenly to his sides...

The wrinkled eyelids slowly rose... exposing the blue eyes to the mesmeric lights...

Sight, hearing, muscles, senses, were immobilised.

The Doctor stood erect...

Unable to move... see... or speak...

A prisoner indeed...

12

The Baiter Bitten

Incongruously, the statuesque rigour of the Doctor reminded Mel of the waxworks in Madame Tussauds: a museum in London, England, that housed many effigies of the famous who peopled her planet Earth.

A shudder shook her slender frame, for it was the basement of the popular landmark that came to mind – the Chamber of Horrors!

She regarded with contempt the calm faces of the esteemed observers in the Courtroom. It was difficult to accept that these were the same species as the altruistic Doctor. Their impassivity was tantamount to callousness.

Her attention strayed to the Key of Rassilon hanging about the Keeper’s neck. Her attempt to secure it had been baulked... would she have the opportunity to try again.. ?

The Master would have been arrogantly amused by Mel’s futile attempts to gain the Key of Rassilon. Indeed, had he not been engaged in subjugating the Doctor, he could have told the tale of his own adroitness in obtaining access to the Matrix.

The Time Lords of Gallifrey had, over the aeons, developed a trait that could only be described as an acute case of Achilles Heel. These vain-glorious elitists no longer deigned to carry out those tedious day-to-day chores which occurred even in the most perfect of societies. Maintenance of the Matrix had been delegated – nay, relegated – to the Elzevirs, inhabitants of the Moon of Leptonica; a lunar satellite in the constellation of Daedalus.

These delicate creatures specialised in micro-technology and were, therefore, ideally suited to disburden the slothful Gallifreyans from the tedium of servicing and refurbishing the micro-circuitry of the Matrix.

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