Missy - Instantly decodes foreign language

‘How do you activate it? The interface?’ She huffed when no answer came. ‘Of course, you can’t talk, can you? Never mind. I’ll do it myself. I mean, I might hit the wrong button and blow up the entire station, but that’s the risk we’re going to have to take.’

She clicked her fingers and a cluster of holographic slabs appeared around her. She started working them like a concert pianist, cycling through Kalub’s notes and methodology.

Yayani peered over her shoulder and frowned. The text on the virtual screens was indecipherable, a meaningless scrawl of random letters and symbols.

‘Why isn’t your TARDIS translating?’

‘Because this isn’t a language, not one stored in the TARDIS databanks anyway. It’s an alphabet of Doctor Kalub’s devising, complete gobbledegook to anyone but him.’

‘Then, how are you reading it?’

‘Because I’m exceptional in every way. Why did you try to kill Rassilon?’

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The Missy Chronicles: Lords and Masters