Chapter 6
The instant she stepped through the door, it closed behind her soundlessly. The air became heavier. The pulsing, blue light was mesmerizing and frightening all at once. The hallway never stayed straight for more than a few steps, and no doors or other hallways branched off of it. The walls were black and the floor was hard as stone beneath her feet, but her footsteps made no sound. In fact, nothing made a sound. The hallway was completely silent.
As she turned what felt like the hundredth corner, she saw a light ahead, different from the dim, bleary light surround her. This light was white, and stayed steady. She quickened her pace, then gasped in wonder as the walls and ceiling disappeared from around her and were replaced by stars. Everywhere she looked she could see galaxies spinning, suns burning, planet and comets flying through the air. She spun around, realizing that everywhere, even beneath her feet, she could see the universe. Then her eyes fell on the source of the white light that she had seen in the hallway. In a glass case on the other side of the room, a person was suspended. The light was shining out from some unseeable source, but it only illuminated the case. As Elly approached it, she realised that the figure in the cage was a girl. She looked like she was about the same age as Elly. Her blond hair flowed out behind her like a golden cloud. Her body was limp but it was held upright as if weightless, and her eyes were closed.
Elly stopped when she stood less than three feet away from the case. The girl didn't move. She almost seemed like she wasn't real, and if she were, she must have been dead. Her face was so peaceful, and her body so still. Suddenly, Elly felt a powerful urge to touch the glass. She reached her hand out and pressed her palm against it.
The instant she touched it, the girls eyes snapped open and focused on her. Her eyes weren't normal. The white was completely gone, and only an amber light filled the space. It moved and floated like it was alive. Whispers filled Elly's head, but all so quiet and fast that she couldn't understand a word. And then a voice which could only belong to the girl spoke out clearly in her mind.
"When the Doctor's Bane will rise again,
And all things have come to the end,
When the Doctor has fought but lost all,
Then, once again, Silence shall fall!"
Elly pulled her hand back with a gasp and was instantly surrounded in darkness. She put her hands out and felt the cold metal of a door handle in front of her. She twisted it and pushed, and a door opened in front of her. She stumbled out into the TARDIS control room and stared around at it, amazed.
"Ah, there you are!"
She looked over to see the Doctor looking up from a pile of metal and wires on the other side of the room.
"Where have you been?" He asked.
"Umm..." Elly glanced behind her. The door was gone, leaving only a blank wall in its place.
"Just exploring." She said, looking back at the Doctor.
"Good." The Doctor grinned. "Come over here, I'm almost finished."
Elly stepped over to where he was working, and only one thing was clear in her head.
She could never tell the Doctor what she had just seen. Not unless the end of the universe had come.