Lorna's Escape (short story)

Lorna's Escape
Doctor:	[[doctor::Eleventh Doctor]]
Main character(s):	Lorna Bucket
Main setting:	Gamma Forests
Key crew
Publisher:	[[publisher::BBC Children's Books]]
Editor:	Jason Loborik
Writer:	Jason Loborik
Illustrator:	Lee Sullivan
Release details
Printed in:	The Official Doctor Who Annual 2013
Release date:	August, 2013
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Lorna's Escape was . . . a short story that recountered Lorna Bucket's first encounter with the Doctor

Summary

When a spacecraft crashes at the edge of a forrest near to a settlement, "a massive,scaly creature"goes on a rampage. The creature with massive jaws and huge wings closes in on Lorna and her friend Stefan and a mysterious stranger arrives, grabs her hand and tellls her to run! When Stefan is injured the Doctor eads the creature away from them.

Back safe at her village the Doctor has been busy. Using a device utilising a shield and a power cable the Doctor fights off the attacking creature that vanishes in a blinding flash. The "mysterious traveller and his strange wooden box" also disappears shortly afte,r leaving behind a legend of the "mightiest warrior" and the saviour of the Gamma Forrests, Lorna ksomehow knows that she will meet him again.

Named Characters

• Lorna Bucket
• Stefan (Lorna's male friend)

References

• Lorna Bucket lived with her father, in a village settlement in the Gamma Forests.

Notes

• As has been a tendency in recent years, this Doctor Who Annuals continues the trend to contain a short story that picks up, and expands on, a reference made in the television series.
• Comic illustrator Lee Sullivan provided the illustration showing the Eleventh Doctor leading Lorna Bucket away from a creature excaping the burning wreckage of its crashed craft.

Continuity

• In A Good Man Goes to War reference is made to a previous encounter between the Eleventh Doctor and Lorna Bucket.