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Chapter 5:
“With a flash of irritation, the Doctor saw that the little man was looking round him with cheerful interest, like a tourist on a sight-seeing trip. Didn't the fellow take anything seriously? The Doctor found it difficult to realise that this scruffy, rather comical figure was an earlier version of himself. He felt this second Doctor was ( Read more... ) -
Trap of the Toymaker, Part 5
Trap of the Toymaker:
Chapter Four:
Victoria covered her eyes with her hands. She was unnerved by the Doctor's uncertainty. “Every time we go somewhere, something awful happens. Cybermen, Daleks, Yeti-all sorts of horrible things.” She turned to look at him. There was a pleading look in her eyes. “Why can't we ever go where there's no fighting, no ( Read more... ) -
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Chapter Four:
“The stranger was sleeping peacefully on the bed. Thonmi looked down at him.
The face was gentle and relaxed with something of the serenity of the holy ones themselves about it.”
--Thonmi observes the incarcerated Second Doctor in The Abominable Snowmen, by Terrance Dicks.
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Chapter 3: Darkness is More than Night.
“He was very kind, in his vague, erratic way, and she was very fond of him. But he did seem to have a knack of wandering into the most appalling danger.”
--Victoria musing of the Second Doctor, The Abominable Snowmen novelization by Terrance Dicks.
The Darkness was everywhere.
( Trouble follows...and lies in wait... ) -
Trap of the Toymaker: 2
Trap of the Toymaker: 2
“But with the Second Doctor more than any other, first impressions are misleading. The Doctor's apparent bluster and ineptitude masks a deeper, darker nature. But there are moments too when the Second Doctor's humanity also shines through. There is ultimately no doubt that his raison d'etre is to fight the evil in the ( Read more... ) -
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Chapter 1: Time is Relative, but not Age.
“You can learn a lot from traps.”
--The Second Doctor, WORLD GAME, Terrance Dicks
( How can appearances be deceiving when there is nothing to see? ) -
Trap of the Toymaker: Prologue
TRAP OF THE TOYMAKER: Prologue
“It all began with a Bang.”
The Second Doctor's observation in THE MIND ROBBER novelisation, Peter Ling.
He was very old, and very wise.
But not kind.
Eternity is not kind.
Eternity is boring.
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Trap of the Toymaker: Part One
Trap of the Toymaker, Prologue: Eternity.
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In the Soft Places, there is Music
The song wakes Jamie up.
It starts in the most infinitesimal increments of timing: the collection of heavy white fog catching on the thick thatch, until droplets swell up to beads, then pearls, and their own weight sends them sliding gently down the spines of the dry reeds, like so many billiards' balls, and when they collide they burst inside each ( Read more... ) -
Manuscript possibly found....
I may have found Moon Cursers.
I found a file.
Now I have to summon the courage to open it...
This is HARD.