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'''''Frostfire''''' was the first story of the [[Series 1 (CC)|first series]] in ''[[The Companion Chronicles]]'' audio range. It was produced by [[Big Finish Productions]]. It was written by [[Marc Platt]] and featured [[Vicki Pallister]]. | '''''Frostfire''''' was the first story of the [[Series 1 (CC)|first series]] in ''[[The Companion Chronicles]]'' audio range. It was produced by [[Big Finish Productions]]. It was written by [[Marc Platt]] and featured [[Vicki Pallister]]. | ||
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In the past, Vicki picks up a candlestick and tries to hit the egg, but she is forbidden to do so by a wave of cold heat. Just at that moment, the Doctor arrives with Steven and Sir Joseph; Valzacchi tries to stop them, but as Steven moves to stop him, the creature leaves him and his body shatters like glass. The Doctor examines the egg, and seems to talk with it, although Vicki and the others can't hear any words. | In the past, Vicki picks up a candlestick and tries to hit the egg, but she is forbidden to do so by a wave of cold heat. Just at that moment, the Doctor arrives with Steven and Sir Joseph; Valzacchi tries to stop them, but as Steven moves to stop him, the creature leaves him and his body shatters like glass. The Doctor examines the egg, and seems to talk with it, although Vicki and the others can't hear any words. | ||
Vicki's present interlocutor says the Doctor was cold, "no fire in his[[doctorwho:Binary_vascular_system| hearts]]". Vicki retorts it is not so, and when he says that because of him they are both homeless, she states that for her part it was her own choice. However, she also admits her feeling of loneliness and her difficulty to adapt to their new home, where nobody had her same cultural attitudes. The Trojans, she said, were scared of her, and wanted to cast her away on a rock; however, [[Troilus]] stood by her, and they eventually settled down in Carthage, while [[Aeneas]] went on his voyage. Still, she feels alone, and her interlocutor is the only one to remember the Doctor aside for her. It then retors that the Doctor had no right to deny the unborn Phoenix the right to come to the world, to which Vicki replies that, if it had happened, the bird would have devoured all heating on Earth. | |||
In the past, the Doctor invites the chicken to come out of the egg, and when it fails to do so, says that it can't: there is no heat enough for it to come out. Sir Joseph insists they destroy it, but the Doctor refuses to kill such an amazing creature, and also rejects Steven's proposal to take it somewhere else. Suddenly, Lady Georgiana, possessed by the Phoenix, comes in and takes the egg; when Sir Joseph tries to hold her, to make her remember, she grabs him and vanishes, taking him with her. Vicki remembers that he works at the Royal Mint, and the Doctor understands that the Phoenix aims at the furnace where the English coins are forged: a perfect hatchery for the egg to open. As his Deputy Warden, Sir Joseph must have the key. | |||
As the dawn breaks, the three travellers, Miss Austen and Jim reach the Mint, where the Mallard pair, possessed by the Phoenix, has already opened the furnace. The Doctor orders Georgiana to give him the egg, and offers the Phoenix the chance to find it another place to live, as the last one of its species; otherwise, he will stop it. Georgiana refuses, and throws the egg into the furnace, before fainting in her husband's arms. The Phoenix chick comes out of the egg, and the Doctor and Steven fail to stop the bellows from blowing on the fire; however, Miss Austen takes the crowbar from Jim and jams it in the wheel of the bellows. Vicki and Jim slam the door of the furnace as the fire dies, and the Phoenix with it. However, a tiny spark of [[The Cinder|cinder]] gets into Vicki's eyes, seemingly causing no damage. | |||
And that spark of cinder is Vicki's interlocutor, all that remains of the Phoenix, enough to start again the cycle of rebirth of the bird. One day that Vicki was crying about her loneliness, the Phoenix came back to life; she then decided to keep it in an [[oil lamp]], giving it just enough fire to keep it alive so that it could keep her company, and remember with her the time she spent with the Doctor. Enraged and hungry, the Phoenix burns the scroll on which the story is written to feed itself and begin again the circle, but the fire lasts too little. | |||
In the past, the Phoenix's death signals the end of the frost. Sir Joseph takes his wife home, Miss Austen invites the Doctor and the others to her house, and the three travellers had to employ the help of three bargers to retrieve the TARDIS, as it was floating along the river. | |||
That's the end, Vicki says, as she expresses her joy that the Cinder is here, another lonely being, far away from home, to keep her company. Vicki then says that, in the future, when Carthage will become Tunis, the Cinder will have his chance to grow again into the egg, and then he will be bought by the sea captain taking it to London, 1814 - thus living the story again. | |||
== Cast == | == Cast == | ||