Something growls in the trees.Īmy compliments the Doctor on a perfect landing, albeit that the TARDIS seems to be leaning slightly. Suddenly scared, she finds the idea of her father's grave reassuring and turns back the way she came. A giant has passed by through the woods very recently. She stops short when she sees the tracks in the snow, deep footprints with an enormous stride. The villagers of Beside think the stars and the winters are bad omens but Vesta isn't superstitious.
There has been much talk recently of moving stars, so she hurries on down the path to see if she can catch another sight of it.
She asks the Guide to look after her dad and then sets out for home. She lays her flowers at her father's grave just as the Guide Bell rings out in the village below. She presses on across the snowy landscape until she reaches the Memory Yard in the middle of the wood. The trees are silent but she has a feeling that something is following her. She leaves Beside and follows the North Lane out to Would Be. She knows that by going to put flowers on her father's grave she will miss an hour of work but she also knows that the others in the village will be confident that she will make the time up later. She thinks about the story of things lurking in the woods but dismisses the idea as she attaches a lamp to her pole. She had never seen snow until three years ago but now it lies thickly every winter and gets worse every year. She puts on layers of warm clothes for the winters have been growing more severe. Vesta rises before the Guide's Bell and dresses for the cold. This is the fourteenth book in the series of original adventures featuring the Eleventh Doctor.Or does it? The Doctor begins to suspect that behind everything lies a deadlier, and even more chilling danger. With the cold-hearted threat of invasion, the real battle for survival begins. Tensions are mounting, old rivalries are coming to the fore, people are dying.Īnd then the Doctor's old enemies the Ice Warriors make their move. The Doctor, Amy and Rory find a society breaking apart under the strain. It's not a time for optimism or hope - and it's not a time to welcome unexpected guests. This year's Winter Season Feast won't be the usual celebration. Now as their crops fail, livestock sickens, and the temperature drops, it's becoming impossible. But their purpose, their whole life is to maintain the machines that will one day make their world as habitable as old Earth. With no help from other worlds, they subsist on the food they can grow and that's little enough. For centuries the Maintainers have worked.
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