Clara opened the door to the TARDIS and stepped out onto a lush green field, dazzled by the bright sunlight.
It was dusk, the sun was setting behind a huge forest stretching as far as she could see. The light rays beamed through the gaps in the trees and soaked a village below her in a sea of orange and yellow.
The village was in a clearing in the valley. There were perhaps a hundred buildings, all old log huts built close together. It reminded Clara of old western towns she had seen in American films. It was a sea of brown. Brown buildings, brown mud and brown smoke coming from the chimneys. They could have visited a hundred or a thousand years ago and Clara thought the view would have been the same.
The only colour Clara could see in the village was on the doors. She couldn't see them all, but the doors she could see were painted in bright blue or red. They stood out from the dreariness of the village like beacons.
It was not what Clara had expected at all. "Where is it then?", Clara asked with a puzzled look on her face.
"Where's what?" the Doctor replied scanning the horizon, his hand over his forehead shielding himself from the setting sun.
"This super duper advanced technology? Where is Genghis Khan and his hover board?".
The Doctor pulled the sonic screwdriver out from the inside pocket of his long purple jacket and whipped it open theatrically as it buzzed into life. He scanned around for barely a second before putting it back in his jacket.
"No out of place technology anywhere on this planet" said the doctor staring down at the village.
"But not thirty seconds ago you said there was?" Clara asked turning to the Doctor. "Isn't that why the TARDIS brought us here?"
"The TARDIS detected advanced tech, the sonic doesn't" the Doctor said grinning.
"So", Clara said pausing. "Which one is it then, they can't both be right?"
"Why not? Of course they can both be right and they are both right" the Doctor replied still grinning. Clara could see the Doctor knew something.
"But they contradict, there can't be tech and no tech. Just look down there it looks like the old American colonies, the TARDIS must have made a mistake".
"What's wrong with a contradiction Clara?" the Doctor asked. "How big is my TARDIS?"
"It's", Clara started, then she realised.
"Exactly", the Doctor replied. "Big and small, a contradiction. Both scans were right, no doubt. That's not important right now though, there is one bigger mystery to solve about that village."
Clara looked back down at the village. As she looked closer she could see the buildings looked old, the log walls were falling down and the slate roofs were patchy. There was mud everywhere, no paths or roads, just mud.
There was one main street that was wider than the rest, with bigger buildings on and at its end was one building that stood alone. Different to all the others, this building was made out of stone. It was tall, with a high sloped slate roof and spire arching into the sky, casing a shadow over most of the village. It was immaculately clean.
"Where are all the people?" Clara asked.
"Not a clue" the Doctor replied still scanning the village.