Martha could feel her cheeks heat a little at the touch, but she was good at playing it cool by now, between the Doctor and her job. She took a drink of her own, relieved that he wasn't thinking she belonged on some kind of Channel Five documentary about abductees.

"In the volcano? No, definitely an alien," she said. "Not related to the gods in the area at all, actually. Sort of like a...well, a giant non-corporeal cat? Likes to find warm places to sleep in, gives off some kind of radiation that I don't remember the name of, when it's awake. I say warm places and mean it likes lava for blankets, though, and very much not local."