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Joyce and Romana watched the two girls, Darleen and Victorine, as they headed away from the ferry.
"You think they'll get home okay?" Joyce said. "Maybe we should follow them?"
"They'll be fine," Romana said. "Darleen thinks before she acts. They won't get into any trouble."
"The two of them picking up that snake on the ferry was a surprise," Joyce said.
"It wasn't poisonous," Romana said. "They were more likely to hurt it than it was to hurt them."
"So, time to track down Missy?" Joyce said. "I'd still like to see Darleen's studio. I've seen pictures of it but it isn't the same."
"She may be back at the TARDIS already," Romana said. "If she is, then we can visit the studio."
"I don't see any smoke or Daleks," Joyce said, waving towards the New York skyline across the river. "Even she needs more than an hour or two to create her special kind of chaos."
"I think claiming to be related to Darleen's mother was clever," Joyce said, following Romana back onto the ferry.
"How so?" Romana said, leaning against the railing.
"She worked in a circus, before she met Darleen's father. So she traveled a lot. No one knows where she came from before that, so we can make up any story we want when we meet Darleen's father," Joyce said.
"Don't try to be too clever," Romana said. "An overly complicated backstory can make people suspicious."
"I'm very believable," Joyce said, turning to look out at the river.
The ferry slowly made its way across the Hudson. An hour later and they had reached the TARDIS, on a now busy street.
"If you gambled, I'd win," Joyce said.
"Win what?" Romana said, frowning as she circled the TARDIS looking for any changes.
"Something," Joyce said. "And you still owe me coffee. I think that should be our next stop."
"We need to find you another vice," Romana said.
"Coffee isn't a vice," Joyce said. "Moses didn't bring down a commandment about coffee drinking on his tablet."
"If he knew how silly you humans get for a chance to consume coffee, I'm sure he would have gotten one of those commandments just for you," Romana said. Nodding to herself, she pushed open the TARDIS door and went inside.
"Is Missy back yet, K-9?" Joyce asked as she followed Romana into the console chamber.
"No, Miss," K-9 said. "She returned shortly after you left and went out again."
"Did she take anything with her?" Romana said.
"No, Mistress," K-9 said.
"So, somewhere out there in 1914's New York is Missy," Joyce said. "How will we find her if she's not being loud?"
"All of her tools give off a distinctive signal that Idris says she can follow," Romana said.
"Is that new?" Joyce asked. "Won't she be suspicious?"
"No more than normal," Romana said. "K-9?"
"Yes, Mistress?" K-9 said.
"Have you found Missy?" Romana said.
"She appears to have disappeared into the time stream," K-9 said. "We will have to move forward several days to catch up to her."
"I need to learn how to time travel without a time machine," Joyce said.
"Only Time Lords have the ability to do that unaided," Romana said. "And even then it is very dangerous. Too many Gallifreyans were lost in the void before the first TARDIS was built."
"It still would be neat," Joyce said, watching Romana fiddle with controls on the control panel. Romana threw a switch, and the TARDIS jumped forward in time, and space. "Where are we?"
"Missy should appear here any time now," Romana said.
"Why?" Joyce asked.
Romana shrugged. "Unknown. This is where Idris says Missy will be in approximately one how. The Berryman mansion."
"Think she'll be running?" Joyce said, standing in front of the view screen.
"No," Missy said, poking her head into the TARDIS.
"How do you do that?" Joyce said, jumping in surprise. "Appearing out of nowhere?"
"I'm never nowhere," Missy said. "I'm always somewhere."
"Did you find what you were looking for?" Romana asked.
"It wasn't there," Missy said. "Someone must have found it first." She raised an eyebrow at Romana.
"We don't have it," Joyce said. "Don't even know what it is."
"Something I gave to a friend for safe keeping," Missy said. "But she had to go and die and who knows where it went after that."
"So, a tour of a movie studio?" Joyce said. "Missy is here, and the world isn't about to end. Maybe we'll get to be in a movie."