Chapter Two

"We'll try to find a main road and then....well....something will happen."

"How can you be so sure?"

"Something always happens."

Amy glanced around her. The side ally looked pretty normal to her, there was nothing in it to indicate that they were around 1000 years into her future. A pile of cardboard boxes stood to the side and some kind of bug was scuttling up a mouldy wall. A typical ally, that could be found anywhere, in any kind of city, if one cared to look.

Amy slowed her pace a little and couldn't remember what she had been so worried about before. The little girl didn't seem so important now that she wasn't facing it. It had probably been lost or something. Surely someone would come looking for it.

Up ahead, the Doctor walked on, lost in his own thoughts and completely unaware of Amy now that she wasn't having a mental break down. Amy quickened her pace again, but didn't attempt to catch up with him. She was sure something was wrong now.

"It's beautiful, isn't it?" The Doctor mumbled, his eyes skyward.

"Whaaa..?" Amy looked up too and gasped.

They had come to the end of the ally, where the pavement under their feet joined up with an average looking main road. The main road was lined with small glass buildings, all of which had various signs indicating shops like, "Gary's Jumping Pets! All fun comes with a bounce" and "Moods! How will you feel today!" Amy noticed none of this, because above those buildings, tall glass skyscrapers could be seen.

They were huge, the smallest being twice the size of the Eiffel tower, the biggest being about ten times that size. They were completely made out of glass, or something like glass, except for the outside frame which, even from the distance Amy and the Doctor stood, could be guessed to be made of some sort of wood. On top of the tallest tower little black dots were moving back and forth.

"What are they doing?"

"Building the tower higher."

"Why would it need to be any higher?"

"You know humans, always wanting more, always going higher."

He smiled a little at that.

"If you ask me it's already tall enough!"

The Doctor's smile vanished. He turned to Amy a little disappointed, when he realised Amy was staring at someone else behind them. He turned to look back down the ally, only to see an old lady staring right back at him. She was slightly tanned, wrinkly, and had short black, turning on grey, hair. She was also quite short and held a walking stick in her right hand which, at the moment, she was waving around in their direction. It had been her that had spoken about the tower being already tall.

"Why do you say that?" The Doctor asked, curious at the venom in the woman's voice.

The old lady scrunched up her nose and tilted her eyebrows.

"That tower is bad luck! The old geezer has made it too tall, it will fall on us all and crush us!" The woman voice was very loud and looking around, the Doctor noticed that she had brought in a crowd of on lookers who he hadn't noticed on the street before. It was kind of a relief, seeing all these people. He had been beginning to worry.

The women continued, "What the point of it anyway? Except to brag about his money."

Suddenly the crowd was a fit was noise and the Doctor and Amy were standing right in the middle of it.

"Yeah!"

"Hear! Hear!"

"Who does he think he is?"

"Up there in his fancy tower!"

"While we have to send workers to build what he should build himself!"

"I lost an arm on one of those towers!"

"And what does he give us in return! The pay is terrible.."

"We should be invited to his fancy balls! Not his rich friends!"

An extra loud cheer met this statement. The Doctor leaned into Amy was whispered, "Told you something would happen," before standing back up and raising his voice above the crowd.

"Who is he?"

The old woman who had spoken first took a step forward and spoke.

"His the Leader of course."

"The Leader?"

"Yeah, you know, the King, the Emperor, the President, the Prime Minister, whatever you want to call it. Where have you been? Hiding under a rock? You were complementing it before! Are you on his side! Do you not know what he has made us poor people do?"

"Yes, well, we're not from around here. Could you please tell me?"

The woman's face suddenly went sad. The rest of the crowd was silent. It seemed the old lady was their spokesperson.

"There isn't much to say. He came out of nowhere. No one knows who he is, he just suddenly took charge. Ever since then he has forced us to work on his towers. It's compulsory. You won't get out of it. His got friends in high places."

"What do you mean?" Amy spoke up, "He's the king, how can you get any higher than that....."

Amy voice mumbled off as a large rumbling sound filled the air. Everyone suddenly looked up, so the Doctor and Amy looked up too.

Author's Note: Sorry about the long wait.

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