Doctor Who_ Attack of the Cybermen - Eric Saward [48]
Deep in the caves stood Rost and the other Cryons listening intently to the explosion. For them the flames were purifying and cleansing, destroying the thing they hated most. The Cybermen on Telos were all dead. Now they could get on with rebuilding their planet.
The Doctor leaned against the console, and for a full minute, watched the time rotor oscillate. ‘Didn’t go very well, did it?’ he said at last.
Peri shrugged. ‘Earth’s safe. So is the Web of Time.’ He turned to face his companion. ‘I didn’t mean it like that.’
Wanting to comfort him Peri smiled and took his hand.
‘I know. But there was little you could do for him. It wasn’t that he didn’t have the opportunity to tell you.’
Sighing he moved away from Peri. ‘He didn’t tell me,’
he said, categorically, ‘because he knew I wouldn’t believe him... To be honest, I don’t think I’ve ever misjudged anyone quite as badly as I did Lytton.’
Peri watched as he left the console room slamming the door behind him. She wanted to follow and comfort him, but knew it would be pointless.
So this is the new Doctor, she thought. Wild and unpredictable; patronising and egotistical; yet at the same time able to display compassion, something she had never seen him do before. Peri decided that was an improvement.
Whether she could live as happily with the other aspects of his new personality, only time would tell...
Document Outline
Front cover
Rear cover
Title page
Copyright
Contents
1 The Day Begins
2 The Perfect Crime
3 The Peripatetic Doctor
4 The Search Begins
5 A Close Encounter of a Very Nasty Kind
6 Telos
7 The Tombs of the Cybermen
8 The Great Escape
9 Caught
10 The Final Encounter
Table of Contents
1 The Day Begins
2 The Perfect Crime
3 The Peripatetic Doctor
4 The Search Begins
5 A Close Encounter of a Very Nasty Kind
6 Telos
7 The Tombs of the Cybermen
8 The Great Escape
9 Caught
10 The Final Encounter