Merry Gejelh Merry Gejelh was a Queen of Years on Akhaten . She was chosen as Queen and was taken as a baby , after the last Queen of Years died . She was afraid of singing to the Old God and ran away . As a result of this , she ran into Clara Oswald , who talked her into singing to the God . Clara later regretted this when Merry was kidnapped to be feasted upon by the creature . Clara and the Eleventh Doctor went to rescue her and fought against the Vigil in order to protect her . After Clara managed to get her to safety , Merry was determined to help the Doctor defeat the Old God , which was actually a parasitic planet . She sang defiantly to the parasite and the other guests followed her example . With the Old God growing weaker from their defiance , and the sheer amount of memories the Doctor possessed , Clara went back to help the Doctor finish off the creature once and for all . ( TV : " The Rings of Akhaten " ) Personality . Although she was very knowledgeable about songs and history , Merry was still very young and was frightened of getting the song wrong when she sang it to the Old God . She ran away and hid out of fear of making a mistake and enraging the Old God . When she met Clara , Merry was initially wary of her , but quickly grew to trust her and even hugged her at one point . She looked to Clara for support before she began singing . When Merry was kidnapped by the Old God , she didn ' t understand why , having not been prepared for that , and thought she had gotten her song wrong . When Clara and the Doctor arrived to rescue her , Merry , still panicking over her perceived mistake , yelled at Clara and then used her telekinetic powers to pin her against the Mummy ' s glass prison . The Doctor managed to calm her down and she released Clara soon afterwards . Although she was a scared and confused child , Merry was capable of bravery and was determined to help the Doctor defeat the Old God , singing to it in a display of defiance . Merry showed a mature and charismatic side by influencing all of her people to sing along with her and stand up to the parasite that had terrorised their system for so long . She was also selfless and nearly sacrificed herself to the Old God , hoping to protect her people by doing so . ( TV : " The Rings of Akhaten " ) Abilities . Merry had some psychic abilities . She could form impressions of Akhaten ' s intent , and had some form of telekinetic power which she used to restrain Clara when Clara was trying to get her away from the Mummy . She could control these abilities simply by thinking and freed Clara soon afterwards . ( TV : " The Rings of Akhaten " ) Behind the scenes . Spelling for this character ' s surname is not revealed in end credits , on the official website or , , any other way but the closed captioning . Unfortunately , captioning across the world does not agree . Both the BBC iPlayer and BBC One captions by Red Bee indicated it was " Gejelh " . A piece in the Series 7 soundtrack also uses the " Gejelh " spelling . US iTunes viewers were given " Galel " . However , the subtitles on the DVD of series 7 part 2 also have " Galel " . The title of this article thus agrees with the country of origin , but it ' s also available through the iTunes spelling . The latter spelling seems to agree more with the pronunciation of the name , which sounds like " " guh - LEL " " .