Somewhere around half an hour later, Rose strode into the console room with dry clothes. She was greeted with the sight of the Doctor sitting in the console chair and poking at an object in his hands. With a smile she approached him, unable to help noticing that his blue suit was beginning to wear and fray in places. Though the TARDIS did provide nice clothes, maybe she would have to drag him shopping some time...

"There we are," the Doctor cooed as he stroked the item. "That's it."

"Are you ready to go?" asked Rose, wondering what new toy he had to play with now.

"Remember this?" Completely ignoring her question, he solemnly held up a small watch-like object, though the screen had strange letters flashing across it.

A memory popped into Rose's head of the Khals, one of their tentacles wrapped around her throat as it simultaneously suffocated and electrocuted her. She absentmindedly rubbed her throat where she used to have a large burn. "Yeah, I remember," she said quietly.

"Remember how I nicked this off of one of them? Well, it turns out that it doesn't only show the location of others of its kind or electrocute people. It stores information."

Rose sat beside him and looked down at the screen, but she still couldn't read whatever language it was written in, though it seemed familiar. "Why can't I read that?"

His expression hardened. "It's Gallifreyan."

"What?"

"Gallifreyan. The language of the time lords. The written language is so ancient it doesn't translate."

Rose tried to look at him to convey her surprise, but he only had eyes for the watch. "But why would the Khals-"

"I don't know. That's what I want to find out."

Rose bit her lip. Would he be so consumed with this now that he would forget all about the Vespiform Queen and their mission to find her?

"That doesn't matter now," the Doctor said with a sigh, running a hand through his hair. "I was just looking up information about the Vespiform planet. It's called Vesporia, very original. The air has too much carbon dioxide for a human body so we'll have to take..." he trailed off.

Rose shook his shoulder. "What is it, Doctor?"

"...precautions," he finished without hardly moving his lips. "The Vespiforms won't think of that." He leapt up out of the chair and went to action, working like a blur across the console. "I can only estimate what time they would land there, but we have to get there before they do."

Rose jumped up beside him as she realized what he meant. "What will happen to my family if we don't get there in time, Doctor?"
He hesitated. "With the high amount of carbon dioxide in the air...they would suffocate within a few minutes of stepping onto the planet."