"Oh and I should listen to you should I?" Jack rolled his eyes, and didn't follow at first. He didn't follow people. He didn't work with people (any more). He didn't actually do a great deal of anything at all other than move from place to place and pretend he was fine.

But then, after barely a pause, he found himself running behind the Doctor. Running with the Doctor. And it felt good, too, the running. It felt good to run with someone. It felt good to run at all.

The grass peaked up over a hill and as they reached the top the valley below opened up and the buildings of the town were visible just a short distance away.

A chimney from a building smoked away and outside a board displayed rolling news.

"There," Jack said, pointing it out. "Looks like somewhere we can hold up."