| The band of travellers stepped out of the TARDIS... And both Bettys
promptly got identical looks of confusion on their faces.
"Um, this isn't... Leela's planet," said Ragan, realizing in mid-sentence
that the planet in question had never actually been named in the relevant
episode.
"No!" exclaimed Nyssa, emerging from the TARDIS between them. "It's
Traken!"
"Well, course," said the Doctor. "Didn't you want me to take you home?"
"I had rather thought she was going to stay and travel with us," said
Betty.
Nyssa looked back and forth across the faces of her assembled
companions for a moment, biting her lip. "It is tempting," she said. "But
the Doctor's right. I belong here, and there is much to do on Traken."
Of course, thought both Bettys simultaneously. In the
TV series, she couldn't go back to Traken because it had been destroyed.
She didn't have much choice but to travel with the Doctor. Things are different
here.
Inquirer pulled Nyssa into a brief but affectionate hug, and soon all
the others were saying their goodbyes in similar fashion. Nyssa had been
with them only a short while, but they had all grown fond of her quite
quickly.
Once the farewells had all been said, and a promise extracted from the
Doctor to come back and visit one day, the now slightly-smaller group of
adventurers filed back into the TARDIS.
A few movements of the central column later, and they had materialized
once again.
"Now we're going to go and find this Leela person?" said Gilmuriel.
"If the information we've got from this 'TV series' is correct," said
the Doctor, opening the TARDIS doors, "yes."
And so they emerged onto the unnamed planet of the Sevateem and the
Tesh...
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 ..where a
young woman was walking throught the forest, having just been expelled
from her tribe for blasphemy...
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