Holy Berries- day four.
She remembered that she asked the Doctor what was this Christmas the humans were talking about. She asked why these strange species were so happy about that particular date. Romana could not understand why someone would be expected to just drop and forget all their worries, because the date was 25th of December. Try as she might, she just didn't see the logic in all this. So she asked the Doctor to show her. And the Doctor, being the Doctor decided to take her to the place where she would experience Christmas in the best way in his opinion.
So that was how now Romana found herself here in the snow mountain on her way to collect holy berries with a bunch of medieval women instead of watching the crowds of shoppers around the malls in their pursuit of the perfect Christmas gift. And she wouldn't have minded it if she didn't have to run from wolves in the snow in her white dress. Admittedly she was a Time Lady and the cold did not affect her that much, but if she stay for too long and it would. She was starting to shiver now running for Rassilon knows how long. She was lost not knowing her way around the Earth's places as good as the Doctor. Not that she would ever admit this to him.
Now she had lost her shoes as well running as she was. She kept the basket with her holy berries close to her chest and crouched down. The thorns in the bushes tore through her skin making it sting, but she wasn't giving up and resigning to that fate. She was a Time Lady and she was going to face these animals not running from them anymore. She readied the basket and wished for the Doctor's resourceful pockets, needing to produce a match and alight some stick or a bunch. However not having this did not discourage her only made her even more determined.
Romana stepped out of the bushes of holies, the thorns tearing further into her dress and skin tinting the white of the fabric with the red of her blood, but she paid them no heed. All she was concerned with were the wolves that followed her scent. Her acute hearing could detect their hungry howls.
She concentrated gathering all her Time Lord's psychic energy to try and force the animals away. She waited until they were into a visible distance and tried to force her will on them. Romana breathe in relief when the pack's leader started to squirm and folded its tile in fright under the force of her will. The wolf whined as if in pain and then turned and ran away its pack following it. Her relief however was short lived as this little scene of showing power earned her shouts of.
"Witchcraft! Witch!"
"Evil spirit."
And "The temptation before Christmas." From the other women. She was determined to face them as the superior person she was but there was an arrow burrowing into her shoulder that make her stagger and need to find a place to hide. The pain was excruciating and for the moment she thought if she was going regenerate here. She scoffed at herself to don't be silly it was just a shoulder wound. Painful and bloody but not deadly, it wasn't anything the TARDIS couldn't fix. If only she could find the TARDIS. There was a rustling on her right and the Doctor emerged all bright smiles and curls.
"So, have you got the holy berries yet?" He asked as if he didn't even notice the state she was in. She felt the need to slap him, but she stopped herself by remaining herself that she was a Time Lady and doing that would mean that she had lost the grip on her nerves.
"I though you got lost." The Doctor had the arrogance to say.
"Me lost Doctor? Never." She smiled tightly. "I just thought to get more acquainted with this place's nature." Whatever he had to answer Romana didn't hear as suddenly she felt cold and weak and the legs give out under her. Before she lost consciousness she thought that she would never again ask the Doctor to show her a tradition she don't understand. Before that day she wanted to ask him about that book called Kama Sutra that the humans were so excited about , but she thought now that she better not.