The Frosted Deer (audio story)

	Benny
	Braxiatel
	Teilan Prime, c.2600s
	Big Finish Productions
	Sophie Iles
	Xanna Eve Chown
	Lisa Bowerman
	5
	2 December 2020
	BFPBKBS31AB
	ISBN 978-1-83868-284-2
The Christmas Collection
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The Frosted Deer was the fifth story of the audio anthology The Christmas Collection.

Publisher's summary

Hot on the trail of an ancient artefact, Bernice goes undercover on the planet of Teilan. But it's not long before she starts to have some doubts about Braxiatel's real motives for finding this mysterious object...

Plot

On Teilan Sec, Benny and Braxiatel are tied up in a storage cupboard after their paperwork is found to be fraudulent and Benny spat in the customs clerk's eye and will soon be moved to a secure cell. They escape after almost two hours and steal a hoverbike with a sidecar, eventually getting away from the authorities and reaching the starliner to Teilan Prime. With boarding having ended and their paperwork confiscated, Benny goes to sneak on board whilst Braxiatel instead elects to speak with the captain.

Benny follows a staff member and steals a uniform to board a shuttle to the starliner and Braxiatel gains access to another by presenting his credentials, which identify him as a cardinal and get him a personal suite. They meet on the starliner's observation deck and Braxiatel tells Benny that his informant was correct; they are on the largest starliner between the two halves of the planet on the fifty-seventh cycle of the Fallen Festival, indicating that the Frosted Deer, a symbol of peace between Prime and Sec, is indeed on board. They head to the loyalists' suite and gain access with Benny's staff ID.

to be completed

Characters

• Bernice Summerfield
• Irving Braxiatel

References

• On Beta XII, Benny fought convicts in deep space.
• Deep inside a Tectunian moon, Benny saved a teenage tribe whose ancestral histories were being devoured by an eldritch scientist.
• In Ancient Rome, Benny learned to play the lyre, ran away from three slavers and poisoned a councillor.
• Teilan was almost torn apart during the Blood War. The two halves, Prime and Sec, have been held together by gravity wells since then.
• The Frosted Deer is moved between the two halves of Teilan every fifty-seven cycles.
• Braxiatel drinks wine. He is not impressed by it.
• Braxiatel wears a suit and tie.

Notes

to be added

Continuity

• Braxiatel is a cardinal. (AUDIO: Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Extinction Event, etc.)

External links

• Official The Frosted Deer page at bigfinish.com