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{{Infobox Story | |image = When the Wolves Came illustration.jpg | ||
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|series = [[Doctor Who annual|''Doctor Who'' annual]] | |series = [[Doctor Who annual|''Doctor Who'' annual]] | ||
|doctor = Twelfth Doctor | |doctor = Twelfth Doctor | ||
|companions = [[Clara Oswald|Clara]] | |companions = [[Clara Oswald|Clara]] | ||
|enemy = [[Wolf|Wolves]] | |enemy = [[Wolf|Wolves]] | ||
|setting | |setting = [[London]], [[22nd century]] | ||
|writer = | |writer = Moray Laing | ||
|illustrator = | |illustrator = | ||
| | |anthology = Doctor Who The Official Annual 2015 | ||
|prev = The | |release date = 25 September 2014 | ||
|next | |prev = The Fifty-Year Delay (short story) | ||
|next = Freeze (comic story) | |||
|reprint = Heroes and Monsters Collection | |||
|series2 = ''[[Heroes and Monsters Collection]]'' | |||
|prev2 = Normality (short story) | |||
|next2 = Buyer's Remorse (short story) | |||
}} | }} | ||
'''''When the Wolves Came''''' was a short prose story published in | '''''When the Wolves Came''''' was a short prose story published in September 2014 in ''[[Doctor Who The Official Annual 2015]]''. It is the first licensed short story in any medium to feature the [[Twelfth Doctor]]. While not expressed directly, the story's setting in a ruinous [[22nd century]] [[London]] and its allusion to [[Bedfordshire]] make it easy to identify it as taking place during the [[2150s Dalek invasion of Earth|Dalek invasion]], which first featured in ''[[The Dalek Invasion of Earth (TV story)|The Dalek Invasion of Earth]]''. | ||
== Synopsis == | == Synopsis == | ||
Amongst the rubble of [[22nd century]] [[London]], [[Simon (When the Wolves Came)|Simon]] | Amongst the rubble of [[22nd century]] [[London]], [[Simon (When the Wolves Came)|Simon]] finds he has a protector in the form of [[The Doctor's TARDIS|a blue box]]... | ||
== Plot == | == Plot == | ||
In the [[22nd century]], a boy named [[Simon (When the Wolves Came)|Simon]] is trying to survive in a [[London]] desolated by the [[ | In the [[22nd century]], a boy named [[Simon (When the Wolves Came)|Simon]] is trying to survive in a [[London]] desolated by the [[2150s Dalek invasion of Earth|Dalek invasion]]. [[Wolf|Wolves]] roam the streets and Simon has to flee from them after an excursion to find food. He drops the tin of [[baked bean]]s he found and runs into [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] which has been keeping him safe for months. Touching the console, he pleads for assistance and suddenly the [[Twelfth Doctor]] and [[Clara Oswald]] materialise near him. | ||
The Doctor says that the TARDIS has been stuck in the 22nd century and that Simon must have used the [[telepathic circuit]]s, allowing him to materialise the craft around the [[Time Lord]] and Clara just before they were attacked by an [[Aaraanandal slime beast]]. He then takes the boy outside of the 'danger zone' to [[Bedfordshire]]. | The Doctor says that the TARDIS has been stuck in the 22nd century and that Simon must have used the [[telepathic circuit]]s, allowing him to materialise the craft around the [[Time Lord]] and Clara just before they were attacked by an [[Aaraanandal slime beast]]. He then takes the boy outside of the 'danger zone' to [[Bedfordshire]]. | ||
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* [[Dad (When the Wolves Came)|Dad]] | * [[Dad (When the Wolves Came)|Dad]] | ||
== | == Worldbuilding == | ||
*Simon finds a tin of [[baked bean]]s. | * Simon finds a tin of [[baked bean]]s. | ||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
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== Continuity == | == Continuity == | ||
* The Doctor previously visited Earth during the [[ | * The Doctor previously visited Earth during the [[2150s Dalek invasion of Earth|Dalek invasion]] in [[TV]]: ''[[The Dalek Invasion of Earth (TV story)|The Dalek Invasion of Earth]]'' and [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Masters of Earth (audio story)|Masters of Earth]]''. [[Bedfordshire]] is alluded to, an important location in the former. | ||
* Simon | * Simon uses the TARDIS telepathic circuits. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Tomb of Shemura (comic story)|The Tomb of Shemura]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[Listen (TV story)|Listen]]'') | ||
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