Doctor Who Drabble: Flooded

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Title: Flooded
Author: badly_knitted
Characters: Twelfth Doctor, Bill.
Rating: G
Written For: Challenge 641: Submerged at dw100.
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: If humans don’t act, earth could share this distant planet’s fate.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Doctor Who, or the characters.
 
 


“This world was a lot like earth a few millennia ago,” the Doctor told Bill as they stood atop a high ridge dotted with stunted trees, looking out across a vast expanse of water. “Now all the cities and the rich farmland are gone. The survivors live in scattered settlements, trying to farm the uplands. It’s a hard life.”

 
“What happened?”

 
“It’s a familiar story. Pollution and carelessness altered the planet’s climate, the icecaps melted, and the lowlands flooded. The cities still exist, beneath the water; an entire civilisation is now home to fish. The same could happen on earth.”

 
 
The End