Going through the quiet London streets, the fog rolling in, giving the torches a blooming effect as the fog sat in the streets, pushing outward.
In some areas, the fog thick enough that it looked like a wall, seemingly immovable, and when people go through the wall, they become enveloped in the thick fog. Unable to see what's in front of them, impossible for them to see even their own hands, and in some areas, the foggy walls proved dangerous, with sharp turns and steep hills.
The sounds of feet pattering against the cobbled roads, echoed throughout the empty streets, not even a carriage out.
With areas controlled by different gangs, it's not surprising that roads cease at night, unless there's an explicit reason.
Following Kira's lead, as she walked ahead of Theodore and Lila, Theodore reached out to Al, asking him how he's handling Annika, before telling him what Annika is, and hoped he'd have better luck on finding information now that he knew what she is exactly.
The TARDIS answered, saying that he's keeping Annika preoccupied. He managed to convince her that Kira's still inside the house, imitating her to the best of his advantage, allowing them time, and that he's watching for any movements.
When told about the species, tryannus, Al went to work.
Despite the rust on the conductor coils, the TARDIS pulled through, saying that the species, tryannus, helped inspire mythologies from Greek and beyond, due to their height and immense strength.
They used their status immensely, some interbred with humans, giving rise of the myths for demigods, since they'd also have strength of their parent, but change wasn't far behind, and soon the species found themselves in peril.
Al found that the species died out at the start of the industrial revolution, due to clashes with humans who weren't swayed by myths anymore and the remaining unable to hide from encroaching humans expanding beyond their previous encampments.
They lost to the humans they once lorded over because of the advancement in technology and shift in culture.
Strength meant nothing when humans have access to machine guns and explosives.
Once touted as demigods, the offsprings of tryannus and humans, ended up dying in droves from purges.
Tryannus, unable to withstand the barrage, felled to the agile of time.
Their name stripped from the records and disposed of, no one knowing of their existence, and whatever they might've known, gone to the ether.
Except for Annika.
Surviving in the coldest parts of Russia, fending for herself, taking advantage of the remote villages, and then some.
Only when the tide started changing against her, did it force her out, too, and Al suggested that the reason she's in London's her attempting at reestablishing the tryannus name.
That's why she didn't hide from them, she wanted them to know what she is, to fear her, and while that's a tall order, Theodore pointed out that there's no chance of that happening.
Annika's bound having every gang member at her door with weapons at the ready before long, out of fear of what she is, and removing a possible threat to their bottom line.
"And the children?" Theodore wondered what Annika planned with them hadn't they perished from natural causes. They're human, she wouldn't be able to do much with them as such, even if they lived into adulthood.
Al didn't know for sure, but he doubted it's because she yearned for motherhood. He noted that tryannus live a considerable long time, she'll inevitably outlive every child she kidnapped.
If Kira stayed, she'd be in her 80s and Annika remaining chippier as she's been for the last couple centuries.
"Keep me posted," Theodore tells the TARDIS as they're approaching a fenced off home of Jimmy Crane, patrolled heavily by the guards on his payroll.
Weapons in hand, they're on edge from the fog, and Theodore stayed back with Lila as Kira went ahead, wanting to talk to the guards into letting them go through the gate and talk to Jimmy.
"What's the chances Jimmy wants to shoot us?" Lila privately asks Theodore about their chances with Jimmy turning on them due to his legendary anger getting the better of him.
Theodore hoped that with Kira, he'll listen to reason, but he would be blind if he doesn't worry that Jimmy accuses Kira of lying to him, believing her loyalty lies with Annika, now.
If that happens, either he kicks them out of the house with his armed guards at the ready, or kill them right there and then, armed guards or not.
Should things go according to plan, something that hadn't happened much, then they'll work together.
What they'll do at that point, well, Al's keeping Annika preoccupied, hopefully it'll give them time and figure out what to do, since Theodore doubted that Annika's leaving quietly.
He also wanted answers on what she done to Kira, since the giantess can't remember, it sounds like Annika drugged her with an anesthesia.
Tricky to do with Kira's height, but Annika likely took account of everything before she injected Kira with the dose.
Expectedly, Annika isn't telling him much, but Theodore can't help but try anyway, only because it's his nature as the Doctor.
Whatever the case may be, Annika's a threat, despite the woes of the tryannus, her actions need punishment.
How they go about it, well, they'll come to an idea when the time comes, or Al tells them something of value, whichever comes first, and hopefully soon.
Kira walked towards them, saying they're able to go through the gate, she already told the guards to keep an eye out for Annika.
Silently, they walked through the opened gate, the armed men lowering their weapons as they walked up the long-cobbled path up to the marble white doors.
"He's… probably in the billiard room, drinking," Kira guessed where Jimmy might've been at this hour.
Knocking on the door, Kira waits with Theodore and Lila before the door opened with another guard poking his head out, when he heard from Kira and another guard, he opened the door for them.
Inside the hovel belonging to Jimmy Crane, one of the infamous gang bosses in London, it looked like a set piece, complete with the tobacco stains, stench burrowed deep within the green lined walls with paintings lining them, some of which looked out of place.
Given his reputation, Jimmy Crane presumably obtained his house from a 'friend' and that's the official story, nothing out of place, no questions asked.
There's a strong smell of stale alcohol, but no perfume, shockingly enough, though it sounds like Jimmy keeps his notable vices outside his hovel.
As they're walking through the two-story home, Theodore and Kira see a portrait of a woman that looked even further out of place, with her pinned hair, long emerald dress, and her hazel eyes.
Kira says it's his aunt, it's one of the few things he ever brought into this house.
"She meant a lot to him," Theodore assumed that he held his late aunt to a high esteem and Kira agrees before adding that nobody disrespected his aunt.
In life and in death.
The few who did, never were the same once Jimmy laid his hands on them, and when they finally recovered, they tended to refrain from explicitly saying to anyone how they ended up in that state.
She took care of him when he was alone, always looked out for her, but never hesitated putting her foot down.
Out of everyone, she was the only one who stood up to him and lived in one piece. That alone said a lot about her, but she's gone now, and Kira deduces that he hadn't gotten over her death.
An out of character moment for a ruthless gang boss, but Kira said she meant a lot to him. Probably the only light he ever managed to see with his blue eyes of his during his early life.
Kira pointed up ahead where the billiard room's located, she went ahead, and listened.
Jimmy tended to play when he's unwinding after a long day if he's not in a bad mood.
She waited by the wall, listening for the sound of the balls clanking against each other, and when she confirmed that he's in the billiard room, she gestures towards Theodore and Lila.
Following her, she stepped through the doorway as Jimmy thoughtlessly smacked a few of the different coloured balls with the pole as he squinted his blue eye.
Only when he opened his other eyes and focused, he saw her standing there, he's quiet, as his mind processed what he's seeing before he finally called out to her with his hoarse voice.
"You!" Jimmy's blue eyes glistened with emotions as he sees her, "you had some nerve walking off with some bint!"
Wielding the pole in his hands, he looked at her with his blue eyes, when he saw Theodore and Lila behind her, his mood shifted, and he's impressed.
"For once, someone finally did something right!" Jimmy held out his arms with the pole in one of his hands, empathizing his words, "you know, at one point, I was having second thoughts hiring you two, but you got her back."
He's delighted that Kira's back, but that quickly fell apart when she bluntly told him that she needed to come back, his life's in danger.
"You've got some nerve giving me lip," Jimmy pointed at her as she stood near the billiard table, "you go off with some bint and you have some nerve coming back here barking at me that I'm in danger?"
Bluntly, Kira told him that she didn't abandon him or the gang, she only went with Annika because she threatened Jimmy's life. She would've killed him hadn't Kira gone with her, that's why she left. She gave Polly her word.
"And you know what happens when you give Polly your word," Kira pointedly tells Jimmy as their eyes locked.
When she was alive, Polly held everyone to their word, hell hath no fury when that word's broken, and nobody breaks their word with Polly.
Jimmy, of all people, knows that, and he himself never gave his word without ensuring that he keeps it.
Kira reminded him that even in death, she kept her word with Polly. Protect her nephew, as much as he's a lunatic with a drugs problem, as much as he visits brothels, as much as he deserves every beating, Polly wanted him safe.
That word became her vow and Kira kept it to the hilt.
When Annika threatened him, going with her was the only thing Kira could've done that would've prevented him dying. It bought him time. Now, that time's coming to an end.
During her time with Annika, Kira never gave the slightest of information regarding Jimmy's operation, and she never said a thing about him to Annika. Not even when she prodded, Kira never told her. She kept her promised to Polly.
Annika kept her word for the longest time, but now Kira's sure that she'll make good on her threat.
Over the course she'd been with her, Kira saw the change in Annika, she knew that Kira remained loyal to Jimmy, and that the only way keeping Kira with her meant she wouldn't kill Jimmy.
Everyone around him as well, anything to prove a point.
Anything to keep Kira with her.
Lowering the pole as he looked at her, Jimmy pondered to himself as he rested it on the rack with the other lacquered poles, before he turned around to face her.
He knew that Kira loved Polly more than anyone, her passing devastated her more than him, and she wasn't wrong, Polly held everyone to their word. He wasn't excluded from this when he got into trouble with her over the years for breaking his word with her.
Now that she's gone, it's hard for some people keeping their word with her, but for him and Kira, they continued holding their word with her.
"Say I believe you, what then?" Jimmy looked at her with curiosity.
Kira replied as she pointed behind to Theodore and Lila, "They're going to help you and if you haven't drunk a casket, you'll do as they say."
Hearing Kira bluntly tell him what he's supposed to do made Jimmy give a hearty laugh as he walked around the billiard table, reaching for his glass of whisky.
"You walk out on me and the moment you come in here, again, you're giving me orders. What a world we're living in," Jimmy snorts as he drank his whisky.
As he rested his glass on the edge of the billiard table, Jimmy responded that he's got men posted everywhere, Annika's no threat to him.
While he's boasting this, Theodore hears Al calling out to him telepathically, and when he answers, Al urgently warned him, "Get the hell out of there!"