The Doctor curtly shook her head. ‘I’m afraid he’s both very much more and very much less than that. He’s not a person at all. It is a projection into this universe from outside space and time.’
‘A tool of higher powers?’ The Bull’s eyes lit up. ‘An avatar?’
‘I’m afraid not. At best a tool of lower powers: an atavar. In fact he’s just a proboscis, a butterfly’s nose; and the Earth is a flower.’
‘And so what’s the nectar?’ the Bull muttered.
‘We are the nectar,’ said the Doctor. ‘We are.’
Coming soon – the penultimate (plus or minus one or two) episode of Doctor Who and the Shadow in Eternity. Set phasers on thrill!
The Shadow in Eternity 