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“What's happening now?” said Leela.
They were sitting on the overturned TARDIS, watching Redred and Glospin spread a document on one of the Hall tables.
“Don't know,” Dorothee said. “Something to do with the Doctor's ancestry. They reckon he's not who he says he is.”
Leela's hand went to her knife. “Then we must protect him.”
“Comes as no surprise to me. People are always saying that about him.”
“Which people?”
Dorothee shrugged. “People all over. When you travel with someone, you can't help finding out a few dark secrets.
Don't tell me you've never wanted to know who he really is.”
“Sometimes,” said Leela. “But that would be wrong.”
“Comment? I mean, why?”
Leela looked at her sternly. “The Doctor is wise and strange, and he is powerful. But he is also a mystery that will only reveal itself to the chosen.”
“Maybe,” said Dorothee. “But I still want to know.”

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“Well then, tell us about the Doctor,” said Henbest. “Tell us precisely who he is.”
“You’d never believe me,” said the Ace in the trance.
Butcher came back from the window and sat down beside
Henbest. “I thought you said she’d answer our questions?”
“To the best of her ability,” said the psychiatrist.
“She’s being evasive.”
“Not deliberately and not by her own lights. She is really trying to answer our questions as best she can. She means it when she says we wouldn’t believe her.”
“I need to find out about this Doctor bird,” said Butcher impatiently. “I need to know about his background. Where he comes from.”
Henbest leaned over towards the girl on the sofa. “Where does the Doctor come from?”
“Now, that’s a question,” said the Ace. “There’s some people who think they know, but I think they haven’t got the first clue.”
“How about you?” Henbest grinned slyly. “Surely you have the first clue. Surely you know him better than they do. You must know where he comes from.” The pronoun was almost obscene in his mouth.
“No, but at least I know enough to know I haven’t got the first clue.”
A smile played around the Ace’s lips. “Which puts me one up on you.”

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