Canaries (short story)

Canaries
Main character(s):	Anke Von Grisel
Featuring:	Eleventh Doctor, Eighth Doctor, The Curator
Main enemy:	The Faction
Main setting:	Verbier Museum of the Impossible, Verbier
Key crew
Writer:	Dave Rudden
Release details
Release date:	15 October 2020
The Wintertime Paradox
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Canaries was a bonus story released to accompany the October 2020 release of The Wintertime Paradox. It tied into the Time Lord Victorious event.

Summary

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Plot

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Characters

• Anke Von Grisel
• Eleventh Doctor
• Eighth Doctor
• The Curator
• Sibling Different
• Sibling Same

References

• Verbier Museum of the Impossible was established in 2044.
• The Shanghai Museum of Propaganda is located in a basement of an apartment building.
• The Darwin Twine Ball Museum is a community centre.
• The Bendery Military Museum is a converted Soviet steam train.
• Anke has arthritis.
• Gunther has a museum "two towns over" from Verbier. The museum hosts a collection of seventeenth century marionettes.
• Anke makes her own plinths.
• The pipe is made from polyvinyl chloride and was made in the "eighties" by a company called Marburg Plastic.
• The coin has a double-headed eagle on one side, and the face of Adolf Hitler on the other.

Notes

• The story was also included as the final story of the e-book edition of The Wintertime Paradox, despite taking place before the events of the first story.
• In the real world, Verbier is in Switzerland; however, there is no confirmation of this in the story.
• The version of Canaries printed in The Wintertime Paradox has the Daleks directly interrupting the Eleventh Doctor's phonecall with the word "+ + EXTERMINATE + +".

Continuity

• One exhibit in the museum is a metal sphere, accompanied by the inexplicable word "Toclafane". (TV: The Sound of Drums / Last of the Time Lords)
• One exhibit in the museum is a crystal from Mordeela. (PROSE: The Knight, The Fool and The Dead)
• The ending of Adelaide Brooke's biography is in flux. (TV: The Waters of Mars)
• British royalty are werewolves. (TV: Tooth and Claw)
• The Eighth Doctor says the museum exhibits indicate that "dark times are coming". (PROSE: The Knight, The Fool and The Dead)
• One exhibit is a painting of Napoleon riding a stegosaurus. (PROSE: The Paradox Moon)
• One incarnation of the Doctor has retired to be a curator. (TV: The Day of the Doctor)

External links

• Canaries on doctorwho.tv