First Meetings (short story)

	Iris Wildthyme, Panda
	El Jefe, Alison
	Hyspero
	Stuart Douglas
	Iris: Abroad
	5 November 2010
	The Further Adventures of Iris Wildthyme
Iris Wildthyme
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First Meetings was the tenth story in the anthology Iris: Abroad. It was written by Stuart Douglas.

Summary

Iris Wildthyme recounts her first meeting with El Jefe, a refugee from a powerful race of time-travelling aliens.

Characters

• Iris Wildthyme
• El Jefe
• Alison

Worldbuilding

• Jeff claims he was involved in the crisis "when the Monkey God threatened to bring anti-matter through into our Universe."

Notes

• Iris pretends to have met El Jefe in revolutionary Paris. In The Scarlet Empress she claims to have have met the First Doctor in revolutionary Paris.
• First Meetings was reprinted in Obverse Books' charity anthology A Second Target for Tommy as When Iris Met Billy. In this reprinting, several phrases were replaced with more Doctor Who-familiar terms: "El Jefe" became "the Doctor" or "Billy"; "Alison" became "Susan"; "the Clockworks" became "Gallifrey"; "Wordships" became "timeships"; and "The Maelstrom" became "the Vortex".

Continuity

• The mysterious people of the Clockworks originated in the previous universe, but crossed the rapids so they could tend their Tale Without Meaning. (PROSE: Christmas on a Rational Planet, The Book of the War)