Normality (short story)

Normality was an original story featured in Heroes and Monsters Collection.

Summary
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Characters

 * Eleventh Doctor
 * Clara Oswald
 * Dave Oswald
 * Tonnchenform
 * Courtney Woods
 * Joshua Adams
 * Zehra Jalindra
 * Mackenzie Brooks
 * Liam Mannings
 * Chiana Holden
 * Tommy Breare
 * Kelly Squires
 * Sam Kaye-Jones

Worldbuilding

 * The Doctor and Clara find a Tonnchenform.
 * Their following adventure involves a dinner with alien robots, a small jewel-encrusted seashell stolen by Bozzi the Mysterio, and a chase across the snowscapes of Halas Four.
 * Clara reminisces about hearing the Long Song for the first time and meeting the King of Bones.

Locations

 * When the Doctor drops her off at home, he warns her to stay well away from space-time rifts in Wales.

Coal Hill School

 * Clara accepts that the Doctor may have helped to get her the teaching job at Coal Hill School.
 * Yesterday, Ben Ellison threw water balloons at Kelly Squires in the schoolyard.
 * Other students in Courtney Woods' English class are Joshua Adams, Zehra Jalindra, Mackenzie Brooks, Liam Mannings, Chiana Holden, Tommy Breare, Kelly Squires and Sam Kaye-Jones.

People

 * Clara recalls a trip she took with her dad when she was nine years old to a tower block near Southport with a restaurant at the top. The restaurant had a solid clear glass floor. Two lads jumped up and down on the glass, shouting they were going to break it.
 * Since then, Clara has not been comfortable with heights, or indeed glass floors. She gets over this by TV: Face the Raven, when she hangs out of the TARDIS above London, laughing.
 * Once, the Eleventh Doctor showed Clara a picture of himself and Marilyn Monroe having dinner on the TARDIS scanner.

Expressions

 * Nine-year-old Clara doesn't understand the phrase "safe as houses", listing numerous dangerous things would can happen to houses: they could be "could be "knocked down, flooded, felled by earthquakes, set on fire, taken to Oz by tornadoes..."

Continuity

 * Clara recalls a trip she took as a child with her dad. (TV: The Rings of Akhaten)
 * The Doctor once showed Clara a picture of himself and Marilyn Monroe having dinner. (TV: A Christmas Carol)
 * Clara mentions a confusing conversation about South American authors with Adrian Davies. (TV: The Caretaker)
 * Clara mentions Atif Basra, the caretaker. (TV: The Caretaker)
 * Clara remembers going to the avocado seas of Venofax. (PROSE: Shroud of Sorrow)
 * Courtney Woods is a central character in this story. (TV: Deep Breath, The Caretaker, Kill the Moon) She again makes a comment about the width of Clara's face. (TV: Listen)