And then there is Nyssa.....

"Omigod! Ohmigod!" She sounded nearly hysterical with surprise and delight...

While the Doctor, Betty, and Ragan greet the enthusiastic sibling, the others stand back quietly wait to let Betty break the rather serious news she'll have to give her sister. Then the hangers back all jump when they hear the door to the rest of the TARDIS opens.

"Nyssa?!" Elrondir says softly in surprise, "What in the name of the Creator are you doing here?!"

"I'm sorry," she says simply, "I just didn't feel like staying with the Logopolitians and.....I wanted to thank you all personally for freeing me....and....avenging my father's death."

The last part is delivered with more than a little trace of sadness....and anger (directed at the Master).

"Nyssa," Sigin sighs as he takes her aside, "It's wonderful that you came....but also a bit awkward."

Ragan always told us that Companions never seem to listen to the Doctor about staying behind, the dragon mage thinks to himself, I'm beginning to see that it seems all too true with at least this analogous version of the television Companion! Oh, but the Doctor is going to be surprised!

They sure were! Indeed, the idea was for Nyssa to be looked after by those back at Logopolis....to help her recover from her ordeal. After the business was done back in Betty's universe was done, the Doctor would swing back and drop Nyssa off back at her home (which was still around, despite the fracis the Master had caused).

Indeed, events back at Nyssa's homeworld had been unfolding in a similar manner as the TV show but before the time the Keeper was to go out to seek help, disaster struck the Master. His body finally betrayed him and it became necessary to gamble on a desperate ploy. Using his own TARDIS' Eye of Harmony to power the process (a risky gamble indeed) instead of the planned power source he had wanted to use to extend his life, the Master had instead played body snatcher with Nyssa's father. After ambushing the father, the evil Time Lord had then kidnapped and enslaved the daughter.

Then the Master had gone off on his mad quest to garner the secret of Logopolis in a bid for more power and all that.

Be that as it may, Nyssa was now free....and standing right before them. With the chaos the sudden arrival of the Enterprise and all, the accounting for Nyssa's whereabouts fell through the cracks.

"Wait right here, please." Inquirer simply says to Nyssa before heading over to the Doctor and the others.

As if meeting a "sister" who dresses kind of like a character from that one Blake 7 episode I saw isn't enough, Inquirer thinks to herself as Betty's genetic sibling (as well as the sibling's recently awoken husband) is now looking oddly at Ragan, I have to wonder how she'll act with meeting yet another Dr. Who character.

1. "Probably she will enjoy the meet," she mutters to herself before coughing delicately to get the others attention.

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