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doctor oc as you come into this world, something else is also born.large cogwhee
ls turn. we journey around a large stone building with leaded windows, narrow co
rridors, spiral staircases up tall towers, grills covering sets of large cogwhee
ls set into the stonework, and every few yards screens hang on the walls, full o
f static.doctor oc you begin your life, and it begins a journey towards you. it 
moves slowly, but it never stops. wherever you go, whatever path you take, it wi
ll follow. never faster, never slower, always coming. you will run. it will walk
. you will rest. it will not. one day, you will linger in the same place too lon
g. you will sit too still or sleep too deep, and when, too late, you rise to go,
 you will notice a second shadow next to yours. your life will then be over.tele
port chamber roomin a large room containing a teleport note not a transmat chamb
er and its separate control console, a blackened hand reaches for a lever, squee
zes the grip to release it, and pulls. the owner of the hand gasps and falls, co
gs turn, and the hand turns to dust. light fills the teleport chamber and the do
ctor appears, coughing and gasping. the machinery slows and stops. he opens the 
curved perspex door of the teleport chamber and steps out, closing it behind him
. he remembers the moment the quantum shade raven entered claras body, then scoo
ps a handful of sand from the floor and lets it trickle though his fingers.docto
r if you think because she is dead, i am weak, then you understand very little. 
if you were any part of killing her, and youre not afraid, then you understand n
othing at all. so, for your own sake, understand this. i am the doctor. im comin
g to find you, and i will never, ever stop. towerthe doctor cautiously leaves th
e room and goes anticlockwise along a curved corridor with deep square openings 
cut in the outer wall to admit light. he leans out of one to see the shadows of 
spokes cast on the ground far below. then he looks up at the outside of a tall t
ower.doctor the equipment in that room is consistent with an augmented ultra lon
grange teleport. so, im not more than a single light year from where i was, and 
im in the same time zone. he looks up out of another opening at the sky then acr
oss a courtyard at more towers. then he starts to walk back clockwise. doctor wh
en the sun sets, ill be able to establish an exact position by the stars. then y
oull have a choice. come out, show yourself, or keep on hiding. clara said i sho
uldnt take revenge. you should know, i dont always listen.he finds a spade with 
soil on it leaning against the inner wall.doctor oh, whats this well, are you ga
rdeners i hate gardening what sort of a person has a power complex about flowers
 its dictatorship for inadequates. or to put it another way, its dictatorship. c
ome on chop, chop the doctor will see you now show me what youve got i just watc
hed my best friend die in agony. my day cant get any worse. lets see what we can
 do about yoursa black and white circular image forms on the screens. it is a vi
ew of him, from someone looking through a narrow slit in a wall. he looks out of
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