The lower half of the chamber seemed to have been chewed out of the earth. Rough, rocky walls bearing the marks of huge teeth. The Nestene had devoured its way beneath London and created its own nest.

Rose had entered an alien world twice, first the TARDIS, and now this. She’d thought the future would be shiny and white. Instead, it was decaying, broken and dangerous.

The people around her strolled along in ignorance, while she knew about alien worlds, and spaceships, and creatures trying to destroy the human race. Rose Tyler, four GCSEs, an unemployed shop assistant living with her mother, barely £40 in her bank account, but tonight she knew things about life on Earth that no one else knew.