In a sterile white room on the asteroid of Demons Run a seven year old girl was curled up beside her mother on a small hard bed.
The child looked up at her mother with big eyes. "Mummy can you tell me about my Daddy?"
Her mother smiled down at her, her hazel eyes shining with love "Of course Lily" she said gently.
She started to smooth her daughters long dark hair away from her small pixie like face.
"Your father is a brilliant man and I hope you get the chance to meet him someday. When I was traveling with your father I never knew what the next day would hold. We saw so many things, every day was an adventure! We saw other worlds, we saw things that happened years before I was born. It was magical. He showed me a better way of living my life. He showed me how to make every second count like a second was a day and minute was a year." She sighed "He was so clever your father. He could reason his way out of almost everything and if he couldn't he would just talk them to death" Her mothers eyes had become distant as though she was back with her father living life to the fullest.
"Mummy? What did he look like?" Her mother gazed down at her lovingly, "He was tall and very skinny. And he had great hair. Hair that looked amazing without him even trying. He always wore the same clothes to a pinstripe suit and a trench coat. His eyes, they are so dark and deep that you could get lost inside them. You look a lot like him you know." she told her daughter with shining eyes.
Lily looked up at her mother in wonder as she continued on with her story, "After all of the excitement and wonder was through for that day me and your father would just saunter off to our ship and fly off through time and space. You want to know the most amazing part about the ship was? That ship, that impossible ship was on the outside a small blue box, but inside it was infinitely large." Lily sat there imaging what it must have been like to run through those worlds and play inside her fathers impossible ship. Then unexpectedly the door to that small white room flew open and the people in the eye patches came in led by a woman with black curly hair she smiled at them. Lily felt her mother hold her more tightly. The woman came forward, "It's time," she said as the men came and pulled Lily away from her mother who was fighting against them pulling her back, as they pulled her towards the door "Lily! Lily!" she heard her mother calling, Lily started to fight. "Mummy!" "Shut up!" The man hissed at her as he wrestled her into a small space pod. Soon she was fastened into it and she couldn't move she was screaming for her mother even as the pod started to close. It closed and a blue light filled the small pod and she started to cry. Then she felt something in her hand. There sitting in her small hand was a small strand of dark blonde hair, all she had left of her mother.
She held the strand of hair as though it was gold and cried as she flew through time and space. Ever farther from her loving mother.