Doctor Who_ The City of the Dead - Lloyd Rose
The City of the Dead
By Lloyd Rose
Prologue
The magician had a problem. There was a fish-hook in his heart. It was a metaphorical fish-hook, of course, but he sometimes forgot that because the hole it had torn and now kept seepingly open was of such a perfect fish-hook shape - a soft-walled, meticulously fitted case for the tool that wounded it.
As a small boy, fishing with his father, he had caught a hook in his hand, in the web of flesh between his index finger and his thumb. There h ...