Prose The Quality of Leadership's theme is baked into the title, the Time Lord interacts with numerous heads of state in his various incarnations. From Little Acorns and the Epilogue offer a framing device in which Eighth, having successfully helped the rightful heir to the throne fight off a coup, spends and even recounting these tales in order to offer some insight into successful governance and bolster a new King who is unsure of his experience or talent. In the epilogue he returns to see how the premiership went and if his guidance helped as we discover that to some extent the Doctor is salving his own conscience having somewhat failed in similar efforts before. Eighth gets a few rare sonic screwdriver moments in here and after recently reading so many small scale stories recently, it's fun to have something on a more epic scale with higher stakes.
Placement: As with so many of these Short Trips, early. But not as early as the other story in this anthology.
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