| We find out how the group outside the Pyramid has fared.
Figures, Inquirer grumps as she looks up from the floor where
she sits, After that little stunt I pulled on the Master..... (re:
8974).
The mechanical maiden gives off a discouraged croak, and the others
look down at the small frog that now sits in the very spot that Inquirer
had stood a moment before.
"Well, we now know at least what one of the two curses that Book tried
throwing at us," Sigin says softly to himself, subdued.
Point in fact, the battle with the Book would have been more intense
and fatiguing if it hadn't been for the very strange geometry that the
Book's spells had to travel through.
"Well now," the Doctor smiles a small smile as he walks over and gently
picks up the frog, "This doesn't happen too often. Not like with some of
the other Companions, who always seem to be in need of my aid."
And few to none get this kind of aid, my knight errant!
Inquirer mentally sends to the Time Lord just before he kisses her.
With a small flash Inquirer finds herself returning the kiss, frog curse
broken. They break after a moment and nod. There is still work to do. Work
as in cleaning up the pieces. That and they had to repair the damage sustained
to the TARDIS during the course of battle. A months work, easily, before
she'll be fit to make travel to other universes!
Right now, they must see to those seven sets of Freds and Astras, that
they were able to intercept when the Book tried to teleport them to goodness
knows where for whatever unholy purposes it had in mind. That is, Sigin
tells them that they were able to intercept the majority of the
teleports (a feat that had enraged the Book to no ends.....and precipitated
the last act of spite).
"God willing, we'll be able to somehow track them and aid them," Sigin
mutters to himself wearily as the TARDIS materializes at the spot where
the others are. "At least we were able to get most of them to stay on this
world......"
Those outside the Pyramid do not know of the Books success with teleporting
some of those inside the red edifices because of the communications blackout
(re: 15610). Not yet, at least. Most of them know (those outside and inside)
know of the original seven "detainees" (everyone, including the oldest,
call themselves that, to differentiate themselves from the newer kidnapees....the
sets that the Book brought in later who the Book was going to originally
start processing)
.....
Don't look at me like that! That's how they describe themselves here!
Anyway....
However, upon exiting the TARDIS (after a rather shaky landing), one
does know something is amiss when she lays eyes upon the ONE Fred from
inside the Pyramid who's teleport only got deflected to the immediate vicinity
outside it.
Jarlath's group who'd been outside the Pyramid attacking it at various
points start to shuffle back. While a bit tired from their spell casting
efforts, they're not spent. The Book's efforts had been more concentrated
on the TARDIS, those inside the Pyramid, and Synizn.
Inquirer's eyes flash red as this Fred, who been scratching at a greying
spot of skin on his left hand, seems spellbound as he looks at her crimson
barrette.
"Holy shit!" she says softly.
The mechanical maiden, without a word (or permission) goes right up
to the still staring Fred and grabs his hands before he can snatch the
hat from her head.
"Unseelie," she says softly, sniffing at the spot on this Fred's hand.
She recognized the stench well enough, if not this particular species.
She should, seeing that she'd had more than her fair share of encounters
with those vile Unseelie scums. Point in fact, her barrette was modeled
after one of those blood stained hats (that she'd taken from one of them
after killing it for having slain a human child). It was a combination
fashion statement, trophy, and a challenge to all other Redcaps, that copy
she wore.....
"Huh?....What?" the Fred blinks, confused as he comes out of the spell
that he was under.
"You, I, and the others have a problem," Inquirer says softly, looking
at him, then back at her companions, "We seem to now know what that second
curse from the Book was all about,.....
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 "and I'll
bet we'll need Synizn's Crystallic to break it!"
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