Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark (novel)

Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark is the seventh novel in the Virgin New Adventures series, and the final book in the Cat's Cradle arc. It was written by Andrew Hunt, and features the Seventh Doctor and Ace.

Publisher's summary
Spare no sympathy for those creatures. They were witches, they deserved to die.

A coach crashes on the M40. All the passengers are killed. The bodies carry no identification; they are wearing similar new clothes. And each has a suitcase full of banknotes.

A country vet delivers a foal. The mare has a deep wound in her forehead. In the straw, the vet finds a tapered horn.

In the darkening and doomed world known to its inhabitants as Tír na n-Óg, the besieged humans defend the walls of their citadel Dinorben against mythical beasts and demons.

The TARDIS's link with the Eye of Harmony is becoming ever more tenuous and is in urgent need of repair. But the time machine takes the Doctor and Ace to a village in rural Wales, and a gateway to another world.

Plot
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Characters

 * The Seventh Doctor
 * Ace
 * Lynx
 * Herne
 * Goibhnie
 * Bathsheba
 * Inspector Stevens
 * Hugh
 * Janet
 * Rhys
 * Constable Hughes
 * Stuart Taylor

Books

 * The Book of Rassilon starts with "In the beginning...".

The Doctor

 * The Doctor is still afraid of fire.
 * The Doctor refers to the time he took his past companion Mel to a Welsh holiday camp in the 1950s. (DW: Delta and the Bannermen)

Foods and Beverages

 * The Doctor and Ace eat potato and leek soup.
 * The Doctor fries up bacon for everyone.

Individuals

 * Ace isn't very religious.
 * Lynx the silver cat which has been popping up, which is generated by the TARDIS.
 * Ace mentions that she used to be waitress and remembers the time when she met the Cheetah People. (DW: Survival) She also remembers the time she went to 1963. (DW: Remembrance of the Daleks)
 * Stuart Taylor is the local vet

Organisations

 * New Scotland Yard has a one-man Paranormal Investigations Team.

Planets

 * Earth is widely recognised as one of the causal nexus points of the galaxy.

Species

 * A speck of demonic protoplasm infects the TARDIS.
 * When the demons are fought off using faith, Ace thinks of the Haemovores, aliens which were fought off with the power of faith. (DW: The Curse of Fenric)

Continuity

 * Clones of the Doctor and Ace appear in NA: Return of the Living Dad.
 * In NA: Deceit it's revealed the effects of the protoplasm on the Doctor.
 * Ace refers to events/experiences of DW: Dragonfire, Remembrance of the Daleks and Survival.
 * The Doctor refers to going to the events of DW: Delta and the Bannermen.
 * There is an indirect reference to DW: Battlefield, when King Arthur is mentioned.

Timeline

 * This story takes place after DWM: Ravens
 * This story takes place before NA: Nightshade