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Tractators. Exploring further, they find the tunnels connected to Stream's mansion, which contains a prison holding more corpses of Tractators. They arrive in the mansion proper just as the Doctor escapes.
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now has retired as reverend of the local church. They arrive during a festival, and meet
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