"So……"
"So this isn't the sixties," apologised the Doctor, hands stuffed in his pockets as he spun around to observe his surroundings. "But we're in a zoo. A zoo can be fun."
"Zoo's are cruel. They keep the poor creatures locked up when they should be running around free."
"What if its natural environment is too dangerous or too polluted? What if their on the verge of extinction and the only way they can survive is in captivity? Is it so cruel then?"
"Well, I wouldn't like to be locked in a cage," she replied. "And anyway I look ridiculous."
"You don't. You're a mod at heart aren't you," he winked, playfully.
"Ditto."
"Come on. If we hurry up we might get to the pool in time to see the porpoise show."
"That, that thing was not from this world," said Howard, as he sat down on the bench near the keepers hut. "and-,"
"Poor, Gimble," agreed Vince. "Shame he wasn't fast enough."
"Yeah, it's surprising how that creature just homed in on the weaker prey just as he ran out of chops."
"And lucky that you went to fetch the next bucket of food, or it could have been you."
"Makes you look at your life in a different way."
"Oh, don't get all 'philosophical' on me Howard."
"The fleetingness of life is like the fleeting tone of jazz-,"
"Stop right there. This is no place for jazz talk. We've got to see Naboo," said Vince getting to his feet.
"Why?"
"To ask him what's going on with Fossil. If anyone knows he will."
"That was….well unusual to say the least," said Rose, surprised as they walked out of the pool area.
"Yep, and I lost a fiver on the race," replied the Doctor. "Where to next?"
"I'm happy to wander round aimlessly."
"My kind of answer." He smiled.