“Did you hear that?” Donna asked as the sound of a far off gunshot reached her ears and her grip on the Doctor’s arm increased. He frowned slightly, nodding.
“Yeah.. Probably someone warning off lions” he smirked sideways, earning himself a hit on the arm from Donna.
“Ouch, what was that for”
“Don’t joke about it!”
“Donna! Come on, there are no..” the Doctor’s voice trailed off and Donna’s eyes instantly shot from his face to the beam of the torch. “lions..” he finished as his eyes trailed over the large lioness which lay crouched in the grass before them, facing in the same direction.
“Ok..” Donna whispered softly, noting that the lioness didn’t even look towards her as she spoke “What do we do?”

“Someone will have heard that” Ophamech hissed to his boss as he looked at the lifeless, bleeding body of the boy on the floor
“And?”
“Well, we don’t want to attract attention.. We should leave..” Chapivosh spun towards him, a snarl on his face
“I’m the boss..”
“I was just giving you my opinion, sir..” Ophamech shrugged. Chapivosh considered this for a minute before nodding, heading out of the door.
“The closer we are to the mine, the better anyway…”

The Doctor reached into his pocket and pulled out his sonic screwdriver, handing the wind-up torch to Donna before fiddling with the screwdriver for a few seconds. Quickly and quietly, he leaned down next to the lioness and pushed the button. The effect was immediate. The lioness arched her back as though yawning, before turning her head to look at the Doctor. Her eyes twitched and she backed away, growling softly at him. Donna could feel her heart pounding, she could see this ending terribly. Time and Space and aliens and unimaginable things and a simple African lion finished off the Doctor? How unsatisfying. The lioness roared, but it wasn’t aggressive, it was full of fear and pain as the sound from the sonic screwdriver hurt her ears. Within seconds, she was gone. Donna released a breath she hadn’t even known she was holding and ran to hug the Doctor.
“Well I didn’t realise you could do THAT” she smiled, impressed before glancing at the beam of light which fell from the torch.

Zina remained frozen to the spot as she watched the happenings before her. The two strangers hadn’t seemed to notice her, but they’d scared off the lioness, which was pretty helpful in preventing her from becoming big cat food. She looked up just as the woman’s light covered her.
“Hello” Donna Noble smiled down at the girl, stepping towards her. The Doctor grinned, shoving his hands into his pockets and following Donna onto the dusty path. “I’m Donna, this is the Doctor.. What’s your name?”
“Zina” she replied softly, her eyes resting on the gentle faces of her unintentional rescuers. “You.. scared it off..” she nodded her head towards here the lion had run. Donna laughed slightly
“HE scared it off.. he’s good at scaring things”
“Oi!” the Doctor frowned at her before smiling at Zina. “Zina? Pleased to meet you. Lovely in fact.. Erm.. We’re a little.. lost, I’m afraid..”
“Oh.. Well..” Zina looked from the Doctor’s smiling face to Donna’s “I’d love to show you where everything is, but you’d better come with me until morning.. It’s dangerous at night.”
“I can see that..” the Doctor nodded, rocking on the balls of his feet “Ok, we’ll follow, you lead” he smiled before looking at Donna, whose eyes were glancing over the girl or, more accurately, over the bruises on the girl’s arms. The Doctor, spotting what Donna was looking at, inhaled sharply. “Zina.. has someone hurt you?”
Zina looked down at her arms, running her hands over them to try and hide the bruises. “It’s… nothing..” she smiled, before starting to walk once more.