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Leela was dead, to begin with, having expired in the dungeons of the extinct Z'nai and been absorbed by the Time Vampire, she has now been reborn in the body of a young girl named Emily, to whom the warrior spirit acts as a guide and 'imaginary friend'. The Child is a story that she tells Emily, of the travels of the Wizard and the Warrior Girl, and a strange land of terror and imagination in the shadow of the greatest work of art in all creation. It is a tale that will stretch credulity, and an adventure which will test Leela to her limits.
The Child is an odd beast. The main narrative is a whimsical adventure that begins with the massacre of a peaceful religious gathering, while the framing device is a child talking to her reincarnated imaginary friend and interjecting elements of fairytale into the story. Emily appears to be a child of the Victorian or Edwardian eras, but we'll probably never know for sure as the end of the first run of The Companion Chronicles seems to have scotched the idea of this being the start of another trilogy of Leela stories, each set at a different point in Emily's life. As a result, it is a bit of an outlier; an interesting idea that was never realised in full.
Next, we'll move on to the second half of season seven, and it's back to the First Doctor for Inquisitors and heretics in The Flames of Cadiz.
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