Chapter 11
In Torchwood's Hub the Doctor is pacing around while the others just stare at him. "What are you doing?" questions Gwen.
"Trust me Gwen, when he's like this just leave him" answers Jack.
"Has anyone got any ideas as to why those Carrionites would leave the safety of the house for precisely 23 minutes every day?" asks the Doctor.
They all shake their heads and say various adaptations of "Nope, nothing". Then Sarah steps forward and says "Well we know that it's got to be something important, they wouldn't want to risk getting caught".
"You Miss Gronow are a genius, you remember what I said about them in my old body" coaxed the Doctor.
"Sure, it was something along the lines of them using words as the building blocks of society like we use numbers" she recalled from the episode The Shakespeare Code.
"You have a great memory there Sarah" comments the Doctor.
"What's so important about words to these witches then?" asked Ianto.
"The Carrionites use words like you humans use numbers, you use them as foundations for pretty much everything, the Carrionites use words, we just need to find the right combination to send them into darkness" explained the Doctor.
"You said you'd dealt with these things before, how did you do it then?" Gwen inquired.
"I'll show you" replied the Doctor.
He then goes inside the TARDIS, lots of noise is heard and a minute later he comes out holding a crystal ball with three witches banging and screaming, trapped on the inside. "Woah! You trapped them inside a crystal ball" observed Owen.
"Yep, thought it was a good metaphor for witches" said the Doctor.
"So what words do we use?" questions Tosh
"That I don't know" says the Doctor dejectedly.
"So what do we do? Sarah asks.
"Don't know" replies the Doctor.
End of Chapter
P.S. I know this Chapter is really short but I thought it would be a good mysterious chapter while I try to think of an idea as to how the Carrionites can be gotten rid of so if anyone has any ideas please PM me, thanks :D