Doctor discovers Portuguese tome in attic

The Doctor’s fingers brush against an unexpected find on the desk in the unused attic room. A leather-bound volume lies open, its dense Portuguese script immediately catching his eye. His casual call into the empty space is met only by silence, but the book’s presence cuts through the dust and disuse, hinting at secrets kept far too long. Nyssa and Adric’s quiet curiosity lingers just out of frame, their unspoken questions mirroring his own growing fascination. What begins as a routine investigation into Cranleigh Hall’s hidden spaces suddenly shifts from athletic distraction to something older, darker, and bound to an orchid no one has yet named. The tome becomes a cipher, its foreign text both a puzzle and a warning of dangers passing fancies can no longer ignore