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The [[First Doctor]], [[Steven Taylor]] and [[Vicki Pallister]] visited London during the frost fair and came across the [[Phoenix (species)|Phoenix]]'s egg at the collection of a sea captain. The Phoenix took advantage of the presence of both Vicki and [[Lady Georgiana Mallard]], wife of the Deputy Warden of the [[Royal Mint]] [[Sir Joseph Mallard]], to possess the latter and escape. It also took control of [[Ippolito Valzacchi]], an [[Italian]] charlatan, and used him to be brought to [[St. Cuthbert]]'s church, before sending him to fetch Georgiana. When the intervention of the Doctor, Steven and Vicki prevented Georgiana from following him, the Phoenix kidnapped Georgiana itself and used her to attract her husband there. The egg's location was discovered by Vicki and [[Jane Austen]], with the Doctor, Steven and Sir Joseph reaching them somewhat after. The Doctor offered the Phoenix to take it somewhere else, somewhere it could be born and feed without endangering any life forms, but the Phoenix refused and had Georgiana kidnap her own husband and force him to open the furnace of the Mint, hoping that the heat of the furnace was enough for the egg to be hatched. Its plan was prevented by the combined effort of the Doctor, Steven, Vicki and Miss Austen, which stopped the furnace from working and let the newly-born Phoenix die. Only [[The Cinder|a tiny spark of cinder]] survived in Vicki's eyes, to be revived much later in ancient [[Carthage]] and then come back to London only to be defeated, generating a [[time loop]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Frostfire (audio story)|Frostfire]]'')