Yasmin covers her eyes to shield herself from the bright light as she feels the ground disappear under her. She feels this pulling sensation, like driving over a hill when your stomach drops from sudden jump. That's exactly what she experiences when all of a sudden, her feet touch the ground again. She promptly loses her balance and falls down, hand taking the harsh contact with the solid earth first.

The whole ordeal lasts only few seconds, but for Yas, it feels like forever.

When she finally draws in a breath to steady herself, she hears shuffling next to her. Startled by the movement, she looks up sharply to see this creature the Doctor and her they saw before, standing next to her, concern written to his face.

He says something to her sharply, his voice has an edge to it.

Instead of answering, Yas breathes in deeply and shakes her head to him.

He crouches down next to her and asks something else. But Yas doesn't understand the sharp sing-songy voice nor the words in it.

The creature sighs and stands up again and starts walking away from her. Yasmin just looks at him in confusion and starts to stand up from the ground, groaning when she feels her shins aching. Suddenly there is a popping sound and the creature is nowhere to be seen.

"Hello?" she calls out, but there is nobody there to answer. She turns around and looks back at the two slim stones, exact copies of the ones in the "not Stonehenge" she saw before the portal opened between them. She takes a tentative step closer. As she does that, the portal activates again, spitting out another human form.

Yas shields her face again and when the light shuts off, she sees a familiar figure standing in front of her.

"Yas, thank god you are all right! And you are here!" the Doctor beams her a big smile. She takes the few steps and closes the distance between them and pulls Yas into a bone-crushing hug.

"Why I shouldn't be here?" Yas asks softly into Doctor's collarbone. As sudden as the hug was, the Doctor releases her quickly, taking few moments to eye Yas thoroughly from head to toe to make sure she is okay.

"I don't know. I had no clue what was in the other side." Doctor smiles again and looks around the two of them. "Oh," she sighs, her voice coated with disappointment. "It looks the same in here. Minus the stones."

Yas lets loose a sigh of laughter. "What were you expecting then?"

Doctor looks back at her sharply. "I mean, this was an alien portal. I was expecting an evil lair, full of bad robots. But it's just trees and grass."

Just then they both heard another popping sound and a deep male voice interrupts the silence around them

"Sorry to disappoint you then, because we love trees and grass."

Yas gasps as she looks up to the newcomers. The Doctor reacts instinctively, pushing Yas behind her and furrows her eyebrows in confusion.

"Who are you?" she asks defensively.

"We might ask you the same," says the male elf-like creature, clad in flowy robes, looking like some kind of character from olden fairy tales. There is also two smaller sized and leather wearing elves standing behind him as well. Together they form some kind of a greeting party for the two women.

"I asked first," the Doctor dares him.

The creature throws her a sharp look. "You are trespassing on our lands."

"Your lands?" Doctor asks, scrunching her nose. "You mean the time-dilation field you have in here? Sorry about that. We didn't mean to come in here but your portal sucked my friend in and I had no other choice but follow her here."

"What do you mean 'sucked her in'?" the creature asks, eyes widening.

"You know, it pulled her here," the Doctor explains, waving her hands towards the two stones. "And poof, here she is. I had to get my battery to recharge the gate but it worked! I am here now too" she beams a smile to the elves.

"It should have not done that," the leader of the small party tells the Doctor. "It should have not 'pulled her in'. The doorway doesn't work like that."

"Well, it did," the Doctor challenges them.

Suddenly one of the smaller guys says something to the leader in the unknown language and they all nod in unison. With that, their demeanor changes completely. He opens his arms and smiles.

"Welcome to the Feriae. I am sorry that you are here in these circumstances, but now when you are here, how can we help you, travelers?"

"Feriae?" the Doctor asks, stepping closer to the new acquaintance. "What does it mean?"

"For us, it means rest and rejuvenation. I have no idea what it would mean to you," the leader answers, a tentative smile caressing his lips.

Suddenly the Doctor realizes something that has been nagging in her mind and she squints her eyes at the creatures. "How can we understand you? I mean the TARDIS's field shouldn't reach into the time-dilation field and specially when its not here anymore?"

"What do you mean it's not here?" Yas interrupts the Doctor, her eyes wide.

The Doctor casts a glance at her companion and her eyes soften. "Long story, tell you later." Then she turns back to the elves and takes another step closer to them.

The leader eyes her curiously. "We know the language of the people in here."

The Doctor furrows her brows for a little bit more and suddenly her features brighten. "You mean you have met the people of this island?"

"Sure. We even have some of them visiting us at the moment."

Doctor's eyes widen at the information. "You have humans here?"

"Of course." The leader answers.

"How?" The Doctor inquired. "It took us a while to get the gate open. How did they get here?"

The leader seems a bit uncomfortable now. He clears his throat and answers, "They have found their way to us, what does it matter?"

The Doctor breathes out for a second and it seems that she wants to ask something else. But then she relaxes and smiles at the elves. "You are right. It doesn't. So, tell us, why the time-dilation, oh elves?"

The creatures look each other in confusion. "Elves?"

Yas pipes up from behind the Doctor. "Well you look like ones."

"Oh, really? Well, we are not elves, we are Sienahs," says the leader.

Doctor looks at Yas and shakes her head. She whispers to her companion, "Never heard about them. This is exciting!"

She then turns back to the aliens in front of her. "It is nice to meet you, Sienahs. I am the Doctor and," she waves at Yas, "this is my friend Yas. She only lets her friends call her Yas."

If the aliens recognized the Doctor's name, they didn't show it.

"I am glad to meet you, travelers. Let's move to the village," the leader suggests pointing to the row of trees with his hand. "There is no point of standing here in the gateway. We have food and water for you."

"Sounds good," the Doctor nods and grabs Yas's hand before she starts walking towards the Sienahs. She squeezes it and whispers to her, "Are you okay, I heard you groan before?"

Yas tries to rack her brain and figure out when, but she gives up quickly. "Just my legs. I think I hurt them when I landed here."

"Oh, okay." The Doctor nods. "Is it very bad?"

"No," Yas shakes her head and points to the aliens who have now turned around and starting to walk towards the trees. "We should follow them."

"Yes," the Doctor nods and releases her hand. "Let's go."

She turns around and walks next to Yas until the catch up with the guys.

"So, what's your name?" she asks from the leader-guy.

"Moro," he answers simply. "And these are my friends Arve and Naimah"

"Nice to meet you," she smiles to the two leather-clad guys before turning attention back to the main elf.

"You didn't answer my question before," she pushes the topic again, making Yas sigh behind her. "Why the time-dilation field."

"The time runs too fast in this galaxy. Our bodies are not used to the rapid flow. To survive here, we needed something from home."

"Too fast?" the Doctor stares at Moro, "What do you mean too fast? I have never had time passing to fast."

"I do not know what species you are, Doctor, but our species is sensitive to the flow of time. It needs to be exact for our bodies and minds to be alive."

"But why come here then?" Doctor asks. "If the time is rough here, why did you even come here?"

"Oh, we didn't plan to," Moro smiles bitterly. "We were just on a survey mission to this solar system when our ship had a gentle meeting with a comet and we had to land here to fix it. We have been trying to find raw material, but this planet lacks many of the things we need. The time-dilation comes within our ship to make this place survivable for us."

"So you crash-landed here some time ago and now you are just living here?" the Doctor queries, trying to wrap her brain around the new information. "How long have you been here?"

"For us, maybe few months?" Moro hums, looking at the sky.

"But for the rest of the planet?" Doctor asks, more from herself than any of the elves.

"Probably a few hundred years," Moro finishes the sentence for her. "At least that's what our calculations show."

"Few hundred years?" the Doctor asks, looking at him intently, mouth agape.

The alien nods. "Give or take few years."

"Shit," the Doctor whispers

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