"Yeah. Some of the first settlers, a bunch of skalds," said Martha. "See, I...didn't get there randomly, I was travelling with this bloke, time travelling. I'm not from the ninth century, right, and they'd never seen a black person before--and this is where people start to give me looks..."

When she bothered telling the story at all, anymore. Even her family--the ones who'd lived the Year That Was first-hand, remembered it--got a little stunned-looking when she mentioned travels with the Doctor. Funny, the guy here didn't seem to be overly startled. Maybe it was an alternate universe thing, maybe where he was from people just up and went to the past like it was Magaluf.

"Turns out their settling had woken up an alien spirit that had settled in one of the volcanoes, and the energy signature drew some other people, not from around Earth, to try and capture it...oh my god, please don't think I'm one of those people..."