The Doctor released the boy's hand and looked around at the dispersing crowd. He ran up to random figures, grabbing their hands and faces, trying to find more anomalies. And find them he did.
He found numerous people with multiple fingers, even saw a few people with more toes than usual. He found people with tiny eyes growing on random parts of their face.
The Doctor found one woman who seemed to have an ear growing out of her hand. He grabbed it and whispered "Hello, how are you?"
The woman flinched and replied "I'm fine but please go." She tried to walk off but the Doctor stood in her path.
"Look, I'm sorry to bother you, but I'm just curious, terribly curious, so curious I'm rambling. Anyway, I'd like to know if you know how long things like that," he pointed towards the ear on her hand, "have been happening. I'm sure it can't be normal, it didn't happen last time I was here, then again I wasn't as sharp then as I am now."
The woman didn't reply at first and seemed puzzled beyond comprehension. She gave the Doctor an odd look which the Doctor kindly returned.
She shook her head and looked at her hand-ear. "Well, this happened to me when I was a young girl. I know my mother had her third eye grow in when she was young as well so at least as far back as then."
"Fantastic," said the Doctor, clapping his hands together. "Well, thank you for a straight-ish answer. How old is your mother, if you don't mind my asking?"
"She is 27 Feldor-Solstice days old."
The Doctor's smile dropped slightly, "um…yes…well…um that means nothing to me. How old is she in Feldor Moon-cycles?"
"What's a Moon-Cycle?"
"It's uh…well never mind. Thank you, have a nice day…or evening." The Doctor turned away and started murmuring to himself. He scratched his head vigorously and started pacing in the middle of the road, bumping into people passing by.
Suddenly, he felt a tugging on his jacket. He turned and came face to face with Ter-lake who looked exceptionally giddy. "Ter-lake, my friend, nice to see you but how's Clara?"
Ter-lake gave him a big but warm smile and replied, "Your mate is awake. Come back." Ter-lake whipped around and started running back towards the hut.
The Doctor smiled at the idea of Clara being okay but his face changed to that of puzzlement and he started following Ter-lake, yelling, "Mate?!"