Exactly twelve minutes and twenty-four seconds after Cassandra said it would, Jackie's phone rang. "Great news!" said the Angel using Nyusi's voice. "I've just spoke to the Doctor. And I think I've found a way to free her from her temporal bubble. You and Phrropox need to leave the inn and meet me." Jackie agreed, and wasted as little time as she could stuffing some of the anti-Kraal measures in her purse and dragging a fearful Phrropox along with her.
"All right, you need to use the alleyway that will take you to the main market thoroughfare. But not all the way. I'll tell you when to turn."
"Gotcha."
Shortly thereafter, "Now you need to turn in the direction of the large tower under the two small moons."
"Got it, understood."
And then, "You need to go down that really awkward and convoluted alleyway. Do you see it?"
"I do. We're coming there now."
Shortly afterwards, Jackie and Phrropox emerged from the alley to see one of Manethysia's larger streets. "Now you need to take a direct left, and then you'll meet me."
"Understood," and Jackie grabbed Phrropox and ran off in the opposite direction.
"What are we doing?' he wondered.
"I got a call in the bathroom, telling me that the call is a trap."
"What?"
"What's going on? I'm not seeing you?" cried the Nyusi Angel.
"Yeah, I think this is where I turn off my cell phone," Jackie replied.
The Nyusi Angel was infuriated at this turn of events. And was then surprised when Nyusi's phone rang.
"You seem to have a problem?" Cassandra smirked.
"I will roast that girl over an open singularity!" the Angel raged.
"Temper, temper. If you want to get the opportunity to do so, you should get some things. A bag of flour would be useful. Also, some explosive compounds would be helpful as well, something you could make a small bomb with."
"How am I supposed to make a bomb? This wretched planet hasn't entered the machine age yet."
"True, the planet is about a half century from the Industrial Revolution, so there isn't much technology. But this city does have some wonderful clocks…"
Meanwhile, Jackie and Phrropox were still running, when they realized they were about to run out of room. "Looks like a dead end!" Jackie complained.
"No! Let's take this path! I think there are some friends we can count on." And so they dashed through yet another narrow and awkward alleyway. It was actually especially narrow and tight, and Jackie worried every time they upset something or made a large noise. But after a stressful minute or two, they emerged into what looked like a deserted courtyard, lit by one of the city's street lights.
"Just wait a moment," Phrropox said. "They'll be here shortly." Jackie waited a few seconds. Then she waited half a minute. Dread slowly grew as the seconds passed. And then she heard something from one of the entrances into the courtyard. And then she heard more from one of the other entrances. It was the four Kraal gunmen. They were clearly very angry. Their leader was guzzling some Manethysian wine from an oddly shaped glass bottle.
"These are your friends?" Jackie asked.
"Did I say they were friends? Agents, employees, mercenaries all might be better terms. Slaves might be a good term." The sourly drunk leader reached Jackie and angrily swatted her to the ground.
"What's going on?" she gasped.
"Oh isn't it obvious?" Phrropox sneered. "That attempt on my life was a fake. I'm not one of the Doctor's friends, I'm trying to catch her. I knew the Doctor would try to contact the two of you, so I contacted you first."
"Why would she contact us?" but then the Kraal leader slapped her down again. "This Earthling scum has mortally offended us!"
"Oh, I don't know," Phrropox smirked. "I think most people would find your pain and humiliation rather funny."
"She has wounded our honour through domination! We must kill her!"
"We must do nothing of the sort. We need the humans alive to force the Doctor to do our bidding, and I've already had killed the one with brains."
"Honour through domination demands she dies!"
"And I'm telling you I need the cow slut alive. In less than an hour you can turn her into guacamole for all I care."
"Honour through domination demands she dies!" Phrropox carefully looked at the other three Kraal. They were sullen and bitter, and he could tell they did not really share their leader's ideological enthusiasms. But it was also clear that they would easily follow the leader instead of Phrropox.
"Hold on. I'll make a deal. How would you like your pay?" And Phrropox removed a rectangular metal object the size of a cigarette case.
"What are you doing?" the Kraal leader asked suspiciously.
"I'm going to transmit the money electronically into your account, but I need to raise this above my head so I can get a sig…" And suddenly there was a flash of bright light. Jackie instantly blinked, and as she did so, she heard the sound of glass breaking. It took a few seconds for her to reopen her eyes, and when she did all four of the Kraal were dead, laying at the feet of the four Weeping Angels that had broken their necks. She gasped in horror.
Phrropox looked at his four employees, and chuckled. "It's bad practice to murder your employees. You get a reputation for untrustworthiness. But on the plus side I do get to lower expenses. And no one I think is going to trace this to my boss." He then looked at Jackie who was stunned. "Oh yes, these are the Weeping Angels the Doctor mentioned. And yes, they can move so fast they can kill in the blink of an eye. Oh, one of the Angels killed your 'friend,'"—Phrropox made the quotation marks sign with his fingers, "in case you didn't get that. And also used his cell phone to capture Nyusi's voice. Clever little trick. Now where is that angel? And how did you realize it was a trick, when you didn't realize I was fooling you?"
Phrropox turned briefly away from Jackie to take a closer look at the courtyard entrance where the Nyusi Angel was most likely to come from. And in those few seconds, she acted. She grabbed the flask of the now broken bottle the Kraal leader had been drinking from and shoved into as deep as she could into the back of his neck. He howled in pain, as a greenish, ill-smelling liquid flowed from the wound.
As he did so, something like a diamond fell from his ear. Jackie noticed and out of instinctive covetousness snatched it before it hit the ground. She dashed to one of the courtyard exits. "After her, you fools!" Phrropox shouted to the Angels, as he impotently tried to extract the flash from his neck. But they couldn't movie: his eyes were still open.