The Time Lords were dead, though the people of Earth didn't know it. But maybe they'd sensed that something had changed in the world. That days were too long, that time was now passing in lumps. March had too many days, and nobody knew what to do. Everyone knew that the universe wasn't the same.
And if you had told someone then of the death of the Time Lords, they might have thought more about what had gone strange in their days. How it felt like the future had changed from what it was before. How things from the past seemed to be in the present now, too. How the world had come to be like a movie, while also still being the world. And it might have made them feel better, to know something had changed in the universe. And it might have made them feel worse, to know things wouldn't go back as they were.
It was a strange time for that planet, and a scary one. But fear was not the only thing they had. Because they might have been scared, or shy, or angry. They might have so much that was hidden away. And they might had to stay apart from each other people, for longer than they'd prayed they would. But all the same, they did have each other. And maybe each other would turn out to be enough.
The world is capable of the most incredible change, and sometimes change is scary. Reality bends and certainties fall away; everything we thought was true becomes a lie. When everything changes, nobody can face it alone. But nobody has to, however amazing they are.
Beyond the most distant stretches of the universe, three friends were bursting into something new…
Because something ancient was passing away.
And something unbelievable was beginning.