Summary: This is a sort of "Doctor Who" meets "Avatar" story, without the avatars. The Doctor, Amy, and Rory land on a human colony world where the colonists live in gigantic trees. A whole city in the treetops. But what starts out as a lark, ends with a murder, an ancient mystery, and a local race of "not quite intelligent" spider-monkey-like creatures that might have a reason for not quite being intelligent...
(This story is set between A Christmas Carol and Impossible Astronaut.)
Up a Tree (p.2)
Rory stepped down with relief onto another large branch that formed a wide platform, the stairs continued on beyond the other edge.
There was a table and chairs set out on the deck, above the endless drop, like they were on someone's back patio.
Their guide trotted over to a doorway cut into the bole of the tree, two arch shaped windows were carved on either side of it. He stuck his head in.
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"Deran! We've got visitors. Some more biologists, they parked the