The Message of Mystery - 1/10

i almost have no words for this story if I’m honest. This was one of the strangest things I’ve ever read and not in a good way.

The whole story is using still images mostly from the tv story ‘The Daleks’ to tell this weird story about Susan borrowing the TARDIS and flying to Skaro at an unknown point in her timeline. Weirder still at a point in this short story a Dalek becomes ‘fond’ of her because she did not show fear? That little plot line goes as far as the Dalek following her out of the city and begging her to stay with it? I mean seriously I know this is a short story in a Dalek annual but that is atrocious. She develops a cipher to decode the ‘message of mystery’ from the story but she runs away before telling the Daleks which does give a little activity for children who bought the book to enjoy.

But overall that was absolutely terrible to say the least and I’m very glad it was as short as it was deary me.