Graham was sitting and reading a book. Werelock Holmes, he snorted. He didn't want to admit it to Ryan, but it was actually quite funny. He looked up to see The Doctor approaching.

"Watcha reading?" she said, sitting down next to him, her usual grin on her face. "Ooh, Werelock Holmes. Didn't Ryan mention that book at some point?"

Graham shrugged. "I guess that's why I'm reading it."

"The TARDIS's co-ordinates are set to the year 3049 on a planet called Howlondo. There's a distress signal being beamed from it. It's mainly populated by the people of Skyu; their planet was destroyed centuries ago. They are friendly, I met them in the, ooh when was it? The year...ooh... 2898 at an estimate. This is something I should be telling the others too, isn't it? Oh, well. I'll tell them when they come back. So, information... information... ah!" She started reading out a fact file on the TARDIS's screen. "'They may look like Time Lords...'"

"Or humans." Graham interjected. "Time Lords do look like humans."

"Or humans," The Doctor agreed. "'But they can breathe underwater and see in the dark, they adapted to Howlondo, because it was mainly water in the first place. They were created in a lab in the year 2563 by humans. Their ruler lives on the only island on the planet, because the kings and queens can't touch water.' It's genetic really. If they touch it, they dissolve. They live for a long time, but they hibernate a lot and I think-," she was cut off by a rumble from the TARDIS.

"I think it's impatient."

"No, nothing like that, she's being sent an SOS message from Howlondo. Let's see." She pressed a few buttons and a deep, heavily accented voice echoed around the room.

"Greetings, Doctor." A face appeared on the screen, slightly scaly and blue.

Graham thought, That's not what the fact file said. I thought they looked like humans or... as the Doctor said... Time Lords.

The Doctor fell to her knees and bowed her head. She motioned for Graham to do the same. He did, but thumped his arm on the railing. He tried his best not to shout "Ow!".

"And greetings Human. It has been many many years since we last met." the head on the screen grinned at him.

"Um... have we met before?" Graham asked, confused. The Doctor stood up, and he did too.

"Your Majesty," the Doctor interrupted him, and then spoke a few random clicks and whistles. Graham raised his eyebrows. I thought the TARDIS could translate any language, he thought.

"Ah, you remember," the creature smiled at her.

Suddenly, Yaz and Ryan stepped in. They held armfuls of wrapping paper, which clattered almost noiselessly to the floor when they saw the hologram. The Skyu noticed, and turned his attention away from the Doctor and Graham for a moment. "There are more Humans?"

The Doctor nodded and stood up.

"This is Yaz, Ryan and Graham." She indicated each of them.

"I am Kilano Mercrit. Kilano means King in your language. Now," his face went all serious. "My workers have been creating new... shoes, you call them? The Llina?"

The Doctor nodded.

"There has been an illness spreading round. We call it Wolfshape. It is like, people are... turning into wolves. Once they transform, they stick like that. Practically permanently, but we found a cure. We sedate them and they are injected with said cure, it fixes them, but for some reason their shoes are always missing when we find them after transformation. There may be a link? The change is instant, practically."

Ryan shuddered.

"I know, it is horrible. But I don't have much time till it gets to me. Please hurry." Then the screen switched off.

Graham was confused. "I thought you said that the Skyu race was created by humans in the year 2563? It's 2020 whatever, and why didn't he look human like you said?"

"One, he sent a message through time, they have the ability to do that. They have tech far more advanced than you can even dream of. Two, royalty have different colour skin to others. They have blue, and if they're old enough, horns."

"That's weird."

"The Skyu will probably think you're weird. They've probably never even heard of Humans." The Doctor replied. "Come on, we're going." She pulled the lever and the TARDIS started its slightly shaky journey to Howlondo.