Sight. I could see again. But what I saw was something my head couldn't wrap around. I was in the room that had the Eye Of Harmony, and I was holding the pole, and was looking at the light that was hidden underneath it, but not directly at it. I looked at the Eye, and noticed that it was closed. I looked around me, and noticed there was no one here. Not the Doctor, or even the Little People. I was by myself. I took my phone out of my pocket, and dialed the Tardis' number. After a few rings, the Doctor picked up.
"Hello?" he said, "Can I help you with something?"
"It's me, Doc." I replied.
"Oh!" he recognized my voice, "Where are you?"
In a reflex, I would have given an honest answer. But I had more pressing questions to ask: "Is Cooper there?"
"Cooper?" the Doctor genuinely sounded like he didn't know the name, "Who is that?"
"Who is it, Doctor?" a voice sounded from the background. Though it was lower in volume, it was definitely Emma.
So I'm at the Eye Of Harmony, but I'm alone. The Doctor doesn't know who Cooper is, and Emma is awake. Could this be the moment in time before I looked into that light and ended up opening the Eye? Before all this trouble started? If so, then I knew exactly what I had to do. I placed the pole back in its rightful place, and decided to leave the room.
"Sorry about bothering you." I apologized to the Doctor.
"That's quite all right." the Doctor said, "You make for a nice change, after trying to explain EVERY single thing to Cruchot."
I smiled. As far as the Doctor was concerned, we only just had our adventure in Saint-Tropez. This confirmed what I was thinking.
"You haven't answered my question, though." the Doctor said, "Where are you?"
"Oh, don't worry, I'm in the Tardis." I told him.
"Don't worry?" the Doctor raised his voice, "There are some rooms in the Tardis you don't want to visit."
Don't I know it, I thought to myself: "I'll be in the console room soon."
I shut my phone, and made to leave the room. As I left, I thought of closing the door behind me, but the door seemed to be doing that on its own.
"For all of our sakes, we better not talk about this to anyone. Especially not the Doctor." I told... nobody in particular.
This was when something hit me. I wasn't alone the first time around. There was someone with me. In fact, before I returned to this point in time, she was the last person I remember seeing. Maen. Where has she gone to? She wasn't with the Doctor, or else I would have heard her over the phone. Still, just to be sure, I ran as fast as I could to the console room.
As I was getting nearer to the console room, I could hear the Doctor talk: "There is the planet Tersurus, where some of the most enlightened people that have ever inhabited the universe live."
"You mean Thesaurus?" I recognized Emma's voice.
I entered the room immediately. I looked around it, and found everything was as it should be. I found the two people that I expected to find there, the Doctor and Emma. But the one I was hoping to see was nowhere in sight.
"There you are." Emma said, "If you didn't want to join on our little..."
"Where's Maen?" I asked.
"I'm sorry, who?" Emma wondered.
"Maen Solo?" I elaborated, but then I realized Emma didn't know her full name.
"My friend, there is no one here but us." the Doctor assured me.
This couldn't be right. If it wasn't for Maen, the Doctor would not even have known about the problem in her home galaxy. If it wasn't for her, we wouldn't have been able to stop the Autons in Tel Aviv. How could he not remember her at all? Could it be...?
"Doc, remember the Little People?"
"Little People?" Emma snorted.
She was the one who told us first about it, and she's the one snorting?
"I didn't ask you!" I snapped back.
The Doctor had that worried look on his face again. In this case, it could only be a good thing. It meant that he recognized there was a problem. His lips stretched out, and his eyes widened a little, changing his look from worried to indifferent: "Ah, don't worry, you must have had a dream."
A dream? How could he say that? As soon as that question came to mind, I remembered, this all started when Emma had her dream, didn't it? But then I thought about how little that explained. No, this still didn't make sense, even to our standards.
Emma giggled: "Happens all the time to everyone."
I opened my mouth to retort, but the Doctor stopped me: "You know what? I know the perfect destination for all of us. It looks like we can use a little rest."
What I could use is someone, or something if necessary, that would give me a straight answer. Where is Maen? And what happened to her?
THE END
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