Was he welcome enough. He drew in a breath and slowly exhaled it, thinking 'welcome' likely wasn't the correct word for it, but he was quite skilled at making a pest of himself. So that was the plan then. He would go and be his most irritating!
"I'll go and talk to that attendant fellow there. I doubt the guards will bother much with me if its only us speaking. Maybe I can draw him away while Slick sees that the guards are busy? The chaos from a monster attack might be just the thing to allow us to slip inside. Then once the boy is found it will be up to our new friend Five here to make certain he makes it out safely."
A quick teleport would ensure that even if things went sideways the boy would still make it out of this place in one piece.
"Right, best of luck."
With that final word the Doctor stepped round the corner and had already bounced his way up two of the stairs before the guards reacted and brandished their spears at him.
"Oh! What a welcome!" He held his hands up as if in surrender but addressed the principal attendant there who had slithered his way over to the railing to see what was going on, "I only came to see how you were getting on. Has there been any improvement or... oh, from your expression I can see that there hasn't. Well, we can still do something about that. Maybe it needs a firmer hand or an example to be made of one of them..."
A idea blossomed from that one simple statement giving him the courage to shimmy between the spears and approach the principal attendant like an old friend.
"There was a boy who was rather cheeky to me last time. I think that if I..."
The conversation grew softer and much harder to hear as the Doctor and the principal attendant moved away from the stairwell and further down the hall to the man's office. The last that was heard from either of them was the click of a door as it closed behind them but if the plan went well the Doctor intended to discover where the boy he had spoken to was now and once the others rejoined him they could set off from there.
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"I'll go and talk to that attendant fellow there. I doubt the guards will bother much with me if its only us speaking. Maybe I can draw him away while Slick sees that the guards are busy? The chaos from a monster attack might be just the thing to allow us to slip inside. Then once the boy is found it will be up to our new friend Five here to make certain he makes it out safely."
A quick teleport would ensure that even if things went sideways the boy would still make it out of this place in one piece.
"Right, best of luck."
With that final word the Doctor stepped round the corner and had already bounced his way up two of the stairs before the guards reacted and brandished their spears at him.
"Oh! What a welcome!" He held his hands up as if in surrender but addressed the principal attendant there who had slithered his way over to the railing to see what was going on, "I only came to see how you were getting on. Has there been any improvement or... oh, from your expression I can see that there hasn't. Well, we can still do something about that. Maybe it needs a firmer hand or an example to be made of one of them..."
A idea blossomed from that one simple statement giving him the courage to shimmy between the spears and approach the principal attendant like an old friend.
"There was a boy who was rather cheeky to me last time. I think that if I..."
The conversation grew softer and much harder to hear as the Doctor and the principal attendant moved away from the stairwell and further down the hall to the man's office. The last that was heard from either of them was the click of a door as it closed behind them but if the plan went well the Doctor intended to discover where the boy he had spoken to was now and once the others rejoined him they could set off from there.