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