Frozen Beauty (short story)
Frozen Beauty was the second short story in Time Lord Fairy Tales.
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Plot
The Stella Fire, the most advanced ship in the Leviathan Fleet, is in the 50th year of its voyage through the Andromeda System, when its engines mis-phase, causing it to crash-land on an uncharted planet. The Captain's younger brother, Abadon Glammis, organizes a rescue mission to try and find his missing sister. Despite his youth, he has a lot of experience as an Officer in his fleet.
Many years later, Abadon dies of old age without ever reuniting with his sister and the Stella Fire and its crew fades from memory. One hundred years later, the rescue ship detects the Stella Fire's remains, thus awakening the ship's captain from his cryogenic sleep. After reviving the rest of his crew, the captain leads them into the forest and warns them to accompany him for the last few miles.
As the crew searches for any survivors of the crashed spaceship, a large chasm opens up in front of them, prompting them to fashion some ropes out of the hanging creepers to swing across.
A few days later, the crew finds the wreckage of the Stella Fire covered in vegetation. Unfortunately, something seems to have found its way into the ship. The Captain cautiously leads his crew into the ship to find the ship running on emergency power. Passing through the cryogenic section, the crew hear something scuttling away from them.
Eventually reaching the sleeping passengers, they find out that some of the caskets have failed while others have been smashed open. In one of them, they find a strange green object falling onto the floor. The Captain recognizes the object as a Wirrn grub and explains how the Wirrn lay their eggs inside of the humans and absorb their minds, memories and experiences as well as their flesh. The Captain resolves to rescue any survivors and bring them back to their own ship.
The Captain orders his forces to guard the entrances to the cryogenic chambers. The Captain asks his technician how long they've got until the revival process is complete, to which the Technician tells him that the systems are damaged, so they need the ship's main computer before they can reawaken any survivors.
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Continuity
- Wirrn were previously seen growing on people in a dilapidated spacecraft in TV: The Ark in Space.
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