The scene dissolved into nothing. I stood up in the real world and waited for Clara. It took a few minutes. She stood up and looked around. "Am I the only one who feels dizzy?" She asked.
"Yes, you are. We should find the doctor," I replied.
"Yeah, we should," Clara said, "That was weird, wasn't it? Being in the past."
"It was. It felt real." We became silent as we went to find the doctor. We bumped into him a few minutes later.
We engaged in a small conversation as we wandered around. Both of them seemed to be on good terms again. "Ever since we've been in the memory, you've been acting weird, Doctor," I said. He looked at me and Clara.
"She's right, Doctor. You have been acting weird. Why?"
"I haven't. I'm totally fine. No need to worry about me," He said hastily.
"Don't avoid the question," I said to him.
"I'm fine. Really," He said.
I knew something was wrong. Both of us knew that.
"Sure," Clara said slowly.
We remained silent for a bit. We didn't see anything which is normal. Eventually we heard something that excited the doctor. It sounded closer and eventually we ran into them. They resembled spiders. Their skin was a dark brown and had 6 long legs. There were 4 of them.
"Nice to see you again, Doctor and Clara. See you have a new companion," One of them spoke in a soft hissing voice.
"Now you decide to show yourselves. Why now?" The doctor asked them.
"We prefer to go undetected. It makes our job much easier. It was harder to choose. There were so many choices. You broke our system. Few people have been able to do it. It's one of our limitations," They replied.
"Why that one then? Why did you choose it?" He inquired.
"It had everything we needed. It was harder for Miss Oswald. It was easier the first time. You two were easy," They said.
"What's mine then? I couldn't find it," He asked.
"You know what it was, Doctor. Are you actually scared of it?"
"I'm not. What makes you say that?"
"It's in your memories. Past. You have one that's recent but that's not what we focus on. It must be tough," They responded. He didn't respond.
"Isn't there supposed to be a theme? I didn't notice it," Clara said.
One of them raised their long legs at the doctor. "Him. It's all him."
"Let's go. We don't want to stay longer than we have to," He said coldly.
This was a worrying sign. He turned around and left. Me and Clara looked at each other briefly before following him.
"We're not going to get a word outta him, aren't we? I don't like it. He always keeps things to himself unless he wants to," Clara said.
"An aftermath of the whole…thing yesterday," I said.
"Still."
"He'll get around it, eventually," I replied.
"I hope so."
"I can hear both of you, Clara and Zygella. Sorry, I couldn't help it You are fine with it, right?" He said.
"Yes."
None of us spoke for the rest of the time finding the TARDIS. We headed inside. I hope this situation will resolve itself soon. Hopefully.