This is a story about winter As the Doctor becomes involved in affairs aboard the Federation Starship Nepotist, his old friend Iris Wildthyme is rescuing old ladies who are being attacked by savage owls in a shopping mall And, in a cat’s cradle of interdimensional Corridors lies the Valcean City of Glass, whose King Dedalus awaits the return of his angel son and broods over the oncoming war This is another in the series of original adventures for the Eighth Doctor THE BLUE ANGEL PAUL MAGRS AND JEREMY HOAD ISBN: 0-563-55581-5 the blue angel arrives with thanks to Joy Foster, Louise Foster, Mark Magrs, Charles Foster, Peter Hoad, Rita Hoad, Jonathan Hoad, Rachel Hoad, Nicola Cregan, Michael Fox, Lynne Heritage, Pete Courtie, Brigid Robinson, Paul Arvidson, Jon Rolph, Antonia Rolph, Steve Jackson, Laura Wood, Alicia Stubbersfield, Sin Hansen, Paul Cornell, Bill Penson, Mark Walton, Sara Maitland, Meg Davis, Ewan Gillon, Amanda Reynolds, Richard Klein, Lucie Scott, Reuben Lane, Kenneth MacGowan, Georgina Hammick, Maureen Duffy, Vic Sage, Marina Mackay, Jayne Morgan, Louise D’Arcens, Julia Bell, Lorna Sage, Ashley Stokes, Steve Cole, Jac Rayner, Pat Wheeler, Kate Orman, Jonathan Blum, Dave Owen, Gary Russell, Alan McKee, Phillip Hallard, Nick Smale, Helen Fayle, Mark Phippen, Lance Parkin, Anna Whymark, Chloe Whymark, Stephen Hornby, Stewart Sheargold and companions on the bus past and future Welcome to Valcea, everybody Love, Paul and Jeremy Spring 1999 Norwich Contents 1: Door’s Stiff Frozen ? 2: The Ladies Were Having a Day Out 3: Captain’s Log Stardate Etc., Etc 13 4: He Met Her That Afternoon 19 5: It Might Have Been Any Time of Day 25 6: I Used to be a Lot Bigger 29 7: When They Come it Will be Across the Waves 33 8: At Last the Captain Deigned to Come Out 35 9: This is a Story About Winter 39 10: The City of Glass Was Raised Up 45 11: They Call Me Big Sue 47 12: The Doctor Advances Blithely 51 13: Someone Has to Take Charge 55 14: The First Thing You Notice 61 15: One Night I Decided I Needed to Get 67 16: The Back Stairs 71 17: Over the Years, Sally 79 18: He Wasn’t Huge 83 19: He Was Meant to be a Man 91 20: This is What 95 21: The Doctor Rolled Over 101 22: It’s a Place I Sometimes Go to 109 23: That’s Another Directive You’ve Breached 113 24: The Astonishing Thing is 121 25: Many Tales Are Told 125 26: It Was Mad, Really 133 27: In the Corridors 137 28: Never Had Belinda 145 29: Belinda’s Mother 151 30: After Six Years of Treaties 153 31: Before She Knew It 161 32: Even Aboard the Bus 169 33: The Bus Is Rattling 177 34: Existential Angst is an Embarrassment, But 179 35: Iris Made Fitz Come 181 36: I Was Panicking Over Dinner 189 37: Now The Great Beast 193 38: He Was Astonished To Find 199 39: The Throne Room Was 203 40: Iris Had Come Down 207 41: After I’d Had A Few Drinks 209 42: As The Doctor Waited 211 43: My Mother Warned Me 215 Twenty Questions 219 ... THE BLUE ANGEL PAUL MAGRS AND JEREMY HOAD ISBN: 0-563-55581-5 the blue angel arrives with thanks to Joy Foster, Louise Foster, Mark Magrs, Charles Foster, Peter Hoad, Rita Hoad, Jonathan Hoad, ... The three guests had been served coffee and between them they had emptied the bronze pot and now they were waiting rather listlessly as crew members of the Nepotist wandered by, to and from their... hundred yards out from the cliffs The size of the Albert Hall, perhaps, and the same shape, its ceiling crammed and noisy with a thousand gannets and gulls You could walk out to the rock when the