The Doctor had completely given up on his sonic screwdriver. He didn't even pull it out when they got back to the well. "They all vanished from somewhere around here," he said.
"Yeah, I got that, thanks," Donna replied.
The Doctor ignored her. "But there are no other bodies. A man, a child, and a woman can't just have completely disappeared, it's impossible. So. So...Let's see. Yenna was standing…" He positioned Donna right amid the ceramic fragments. "Right there." He walked in a circle around Donna. "She was surprised by the whatever-it-was-that-attacked-her and she didn't have time to run. But-what if the others did? What if they were standing right about here, too, and they ran? Where would they have run to?"
Donna, a bit tired of being used as a prop, stepped carefully away from the shards of the jug. "As far away as possible, I'd imagine."
"Yes but they wouldn't have gotten far. The whatever-it-was would have caught up fast." The Doctor strode in concentric circles away from the well.
"The whatever-it-was, is that a technical term?" Donna asked sarcastically as she followed the Doctor.
The Doctor turned to face her. "Yes." And he started pacing away from the well again, in circles about a meter apart.
"Doctor," Donna said. "What if I go that way-" She pointed to one side of the well. "And you go the other way?"
"Alright," he replied. "Shout if you find anything."
"On it." In some places, the grass came up to Donna's knees. She marveled at how living things could evolve so similarly on two completely separate planets. Of course, it also made it difficult to see if there was any bodies in front of her. She just hoped she didn't step on anyone.
Then she stumbled over something. She leaned down and pulled aside the grass. A young boy lay there, looking quite dead, but Donna knew he wasn't really. What had Deyno said the child's name was? Reytu, that was it. "Doctor!" Donna shouted. "I found one! It's the little boy! Doctor?" She turned and gasped.
The Doctor wasn't there. Across the entire field, there was no sign of that thin body standing upright in the grass.
Sorry about the long wait, I've been super busy and been working on other stories. Hopefully I'll get the next one up sooner.