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Chapter Twenty

Mortal Overcome

Fights between bears had been common, and the subject a vast amount of ritual. To get a bear to kill one more was unusual, though, and once that occurred it was usually by accident, or when 1 bear mistook the signals from one more, as in the situation of lorek Byrnison. Circumstances of uncomplicated murder, just like lofur’s eradicating of his own dad, were scarcer still.

But sometimes there arrived circumstances in which the only technique of settling a dispute was obviously a fight to the death. As well as for that, a complete ceremonial was prescribed.

When lofur declared that lorek Byrnison was on his way, and a combat would take place, the fight ground was swept and smoothed, and armorers came up from your fire souterrain to check lofur’s armor. Just about every rivet was examined, every single link analyzed, and the discs were burnished with the greatest sand. As much attention was paid to his paws. The platinum leaf was rubbed away, and each separate six-inch lift was sharp and registered to a deadly point. Lyra watched which has a growing sickness in the hole of her stomach, for lorek Byrnison wouldn’t always be having this attention, he previously been walking in line over the snow for nearly 24 hours previously without snooze or food, he might have already been injured in the crash. And she acquired let him set for this battle without his knowledge. In one point, after lofur Raknison had tested the sharpness of his claws on a fresh-killed walrus, cutting its epidermis open just like paper, and the power of his crashing produces on the walrus’s skull (two blows, and it was cracked like an egg), Lyra had to make an reason to lofur and vanish entirely by herself to weep with fear.

Even Pantalaimon, who could normally cheer her up, had little to say that was positive. All she could perform was check with the alethiometer: he is an hour or so away, that told her, and again, the girl must trust him, and (this was harder to read) the lady even thought it was rebuking her for requesting the same question twice.

By this time, word acquired spread among the list of bears, and every part of the combat ground was crowded. Bears of high list had the very best places, and there was a particular enclosure for the she-bears, including, naturally , lofur’s wives or girlfriends. Lyra was profoundly curious about she-bears, since she understood so little about them, but it was no time to wander regarding asking questions. Instead your woman stayed close to lofur Raknison and observed the courtiers around him assert their rank over the common bears from exterior, and attempted to guess the meaning of the several plumes and badges and tokens they each seemed to use. Some of the highest-ranking, she found, carried very little manikins just like lofur’s rag-doll daemon, looking to curry prefer, perhaps, by imitating the method he’d started. She was sardonically pleased to notice that after they saw that lofur got discarded his, they don’t know what regarding theirs. Should they throw them away? Had been they out of benefit now? Just how should they react?

Because that was the prevailing mood in his court, she was seeing. They weren’t sure what they were. That they weren’t like lorek Byrnison, pure and certain and absolute, there was clearly a constant pall of uncertainness hanging over them, as they watched the other person and watched lofur.

And they watched her, with open curiosity. The lady remained reasonably close to lofur and stated nothing, reducing her eyes whenever a endure looked at her.

The fog had raised by this time, plus the air was clear, and since chance would have it, the brief raising of darkness toward midday coincided with all the time Lyra thought lorek was going to appear. As your woman stood shivering on a little rise of dense-packed snow at the edge of the combat surface, she researched toward the faint lightness in the sky, and longed using her center to see a air travel of ragged elegant dark-colored shapes climbing down to bear her away, in order to see the Aurora’s hidden city, where she’d be able to walk safely along those extensive boulevards in the sunlight, or see Mother Costa’s broad arms, to smell the friendly scents of skin and food preparation that enfolded you in her presence,.

She discovered herself sobbing, with holes that stopped almost the moment they produced, and which usually she were required to brush away painfully. The girl was so frightened. Bears, who failed to cry, could hardly understand what was happening with her, it was several human procedure, meaningless. And of course Pantalaimon could hardly comfort her as he normally would, though she kept her submit her pocket firmly around his warm little mouse-form, and he nuzzled for her fingers.

Beside her, the smiths were making the final adjustments to lofur Raknison’s armour. He reared like a great metal tower system, shining in polished steel, the smooth china inlaid with wires of gold, his helmet enclosed the upper element of his brain in a sparkling carapace of silver-gray, with deep eyesight slits, plus the underside of his human body was protected by a close-fitting sark of chain mail. It was when she found this that Lyra realized that she got betrayed lorek Byrnison, pertaining to lorek experienced nothing like it. His armour protected simply his as well as sides. The girl looked at lofur Raknison, so sleek and powerful, and felt a deep sickness in her, like remorse and dread combined.

She said “Excuse me, Your Majesty, should you remember the things i said to you before, inch

Her nervous-looking voice experienced thin and weak in the air. lofur Raknison turned his mighty mind, distracted from the target 3 bears were holding up in the front for him to reduce at along with his perfect claws.

“Yes? Certainly? “

“Remember, I explained I’d better go and speak to lorek Byrnison 1st, and imagine , inches

But before the girl could even end her sentence, there was a roar from the bears for the watchtower. Different ones all knew what it intended and got it up having a triumphant pleasure. They had noticed lorek.

“Please? ” Lyra said urgently. “I’ll fool him, you will see. “

“Yes. Yes. Proceed now. Go and encourage him! inch

lofur Raknison was barely able to speak for trend and enjoyment.

Lyra remaining his area and walked across the battle ground, bare and obvious as it was, leaving her small footprints inside the snow, plus the bears within the far area parted to leave her through. As their wonderful bodies lumbered aside, the horizon opened up, gloomy in the pallor from the light. Exactly where was lorek Byrnison? The girl could see nothing, but, the watchtower was substantial, and they could see the fact that was still hidden from her. All your woman could do was walk forward inside the snow.

He saw her before the girl saw him. There was a bounding and a heavy clank of metallic, and in a flurry of snow lorek Byrnison stood beside her.

“Oh, lorek! I’ve performed a terrible issue! My dear, you’re going to have to fight lofur Raknison, and you en’t prepared , you aren’t tired and hungry, as well as your armor’s , “

“What terrible thing? “

“I told him you was coming, mainly because I read it within the symbol audience, and she has desperate to be like a person and have a daemon, only desperate. Thus i tricked him into convinced that I was your daemon, and i also was going to wasteland you and always be his instead, but he previously to battle you to make it happen. Because in any other case, lorek, special, they’d under no circumstances let you fight, they were going to just burn you up before you got close , “

“You tricked lofur Raknison? “

“Yes. I made him agree that he’d deal with you rather than killing you straight away like an outcast, and the success would be ruler of the bears. I had to do that, because , “

“Belacqua? No . You are Lyra Silvertongue, inches he stated. “To fight him is all I want. Arrive, little daemon. “

Your woman looked at lorek Byrnison in the battered shield, lean and ferocious, and felt like her cardiovascular system would rush with pride.

They strolled together toward the massive hulk of lofur’s palace, the place that the combat ground lay flat and available at the foot of the surfaces. Bears grouped at the battlements, white encounters filled every single window, and the heavy forms stood like a dense wall membrane of misty white in advance, marked with the black spots of eye and noses. The nearest kinds moved apart, making two lines intended for lorek Byrnison and his daemon to walk between. Just about every bear’s eye were fixed on them.

lorek halted over the combat ground from lofur Raknison. The king came up down through the rise of trodden snow, and the two bears confronted each other a lot of yards apart.

Lyra was so close to lorek that she may feel a trembling in him such as a great dynamo, generating awesome anbaric causes. She touched him in brief on the the neck and throat at the edge of his helmet and said, “Fight well, lorek my special. You’re the actual king, and he en’t. He’s nothing at all. “

Then simply she was standing back.

“Bears! ” lorek Byrnison roared. An indicate rang backside from the palace walls and startled birds out with their nests. He went on: “The terms with this combat will be these. In the event that lofur Raknison kills me personally, then he may be ruler forever, protected from challenge or

dispute. Merely kill lofur Raknison, I shall be your king. My own first order to you most will be to destroy that building, that perfumed house of mockery and tinsel, and hurl the gold and marble in the sea. Straightener is bear-metal. Gold is definitely not. lofur Raknison features polluted Svalbard. I have come to cleansing it. lofur Raknison, I challenge you. “

In that case lofur bounded forward one step or two, like he could hardly hold himself back.

“Bears! ” he roared in his turn. “lorek Byrnison has come back at my invitation. We drew him here. It can be for me to associated with terms with this combat, and they are these: basically kill lorek Byrnison, his flesh should be torn a part and existing to the cliff-ghasts. His brain shall be viewed above my own palace. His memory should be obliterated. That shall be a capital crime to speak his name,. “

He ongoing, and then each bear spoke again. It was a solution, a practice faithfully adopted. Lyra viewed the two of them, and so utterly diverse: lofur so glossy and powerful, enormous in his power and well being, splendidly armored, proud and kinglike, and lorek smaller, though the lady had hardly ever thought he would look small , and terribly equipped, his armor rusty and dinged up. But his armor was his heart. He had achieved it and it fitted him. They were 1. lofur was not content with his armor, he wanted one other soul as well. He was restless while lorek was still.

And she was aware that all of those other bears were making the comparison as well. But lorek and lofur were more than just two contains. There were two kinds of beardom opposed below, two futures, two destinies. lofur experienced begun to consider them in a single direction, and lorek might take them in another, and in the same moment, one future might close forever as the other began to unfold.

His or her ritual overcome moved toward the second phase, the two bears began to prowl restlessly on the snow, edging forward, swinging their very own heads. There was not a glint of movement through the spectators: but all sight followed them.

Finally the warriors were still and silent, viewing each other one on one across the size of the battle ground.

After that with a roar and a blur of snow both bears moved at the same instant. Like two great masses of rock well-balanced on plus peaks and shaken loose by a great earthquake, which will bound throughout the mountainsides gathering speed, leaping over crevasses and banging trees into splinters, right up until they crash into each other so hard that both are created to powdered and soaring chips of stone: that was how a two carries came together. The crash as they met resounded in the even now air and echoed back from the palace wall. Nonetheless they weren’t destroyed, as rock would have recently been. They both fell besides, and the first to rise was lorek. This individual twisted up in a lithe spring and grappled with lofur, whose armor had been damaged by the collision and who could hardly easily increase his brain. lorek made at once pertaining to the vulnerable gap by his throat. He raked the white colored fur, then hooked his claws underneath the edge of lofur’s helmet and wrenched it frontward.

Sensing the danger, lofur snarled and shook himself since Lyra got seen lorek shake him self at the water’s edge, mailing sheets of water soaring high in the air. And lorek fell away, dislodged, and using a screech of twisting material lofur was up tall, straightening the steel of his back plates by sheer power. Then as an avalanche this individual hurled him self down on lorek, who was nonetheless trying to go up.

Lyra felt her personal breath bumped out of her by force of the crashing fall season. Certainly the very ground shook beneath her. How could lorek survive that? He was struggling to twist himself and gain a purchase on the ground, although his foot were top, and lofur had set his teeth someplace near lorek’s throat. Drops of popular blood had been flying throughout the air: one particular landed on Lyra’s furs, and she pressed her hand to it such as a token of affection.

Then lorek’s rear paws dug into the links of lofur’s chain-mail sark and ripped down. The whole front came aside, and lofur lurched side by side to look at destruction, leaving lorek to scramble upright once again.

For a second the two holds stood aside, getting their breath again. lofur was hampered at this point by that chain postal mail, because via a security it had improved all at once in a hindrance: it was still fastened at the bottom, and trailed about his backside legs. Yet , lorek was worse away. He was bleeding freely coming from a twisted at his neck, and panting heavily.

But this individual leaped in lofur before the king could disentangle him self from the hugging chain email, and knocked him head over heels, following up with a lunge at the bare part of lofur’s neck, in which the edge from the helmet was bent. lofur threw him off, then the two holds were at each other once again, throwing up fountains of snow that sprayed in all directions and sometimes made it hard to see who the advantage.

Lyra watched, scarcely daring to inhale and exhale, and contracting her hands together and so tight it hurt. The lady thought the lady saw lofur tearing by a twisted in lorek’s belly, nevertheless that didn’t want to be proper, because a moment later, after another convulsive explosion of snow, both equally bears were standing erect like boxers, and lorek was slashing with enormous claws by lofur’s face, with lofur hitting backside just as savagely.

Lyra trembled at the fat of those blows. As if a giant were dogging a sledgehammer, and that sludge hammer were choose five metal spikes

Flat iron clanged upon iron, the teeth crashed about teeth, breath roared harshly, feet thundered on the hard-packed ground. The snow around was filled with crimson and trodden down for yards into a crimson mud.

lofur’s armor was in a pitiful point out by this time, the plates torn and altered, the rare metal inlay ripped out or smeared thickly with blood, and his head protection gone totally. lorek’s was in much better state, for all their ugliness: dented, but unchanged, standing up greater to the great sledgehammer produces of the bear-king, and turning aside these brutal six-inch claws.

Although against that, lofur was bigger and stronger than lorek, and lorek was weary and hungry, together lost more blood. Having been wounded inside the belly, upon both hands, and at the neck, although lofur was bleeding from his reduce jaw. Lyra longed to help her special friend, but what could the lady do?

And it was going badly for lorek now. He was limping, every time this individual put his left forepaw on the ground, that they could see that it rarely bore his weight. He never ever done it to hit with, as well as the blows by his right hand were feebler, also, almost very little pats in comparison with the enormous crushing buffets he’d provided only a few minutes before.

lofur had discovered. He began to taunt lorek, calling him broken-hand, whimpering cub, rust-eaten, soon-to-die, and other names, all the while swinging produces at him from right and left which lorek could will no longer parry. lorek had to move backward, one step at a time, and crouch low under the rainfall of produces from the jeering bear-king.

Lyra was in holes. Her special, her brave one, her fearless opponent, was going to die, and she’d not carry out him the treachery of looking aside, for if he checked out her he or she must see her shining eyes and their take pleasure in and perception, not a face hidden in cowardice or a shoulder joint fearfully converted away.

Thus she viewed, but her tears stored her from seeing the thing that was really happening, and perhaps it might not have been visible with her anyway. That certainly had not been seen by lofur.

Because lorek was moving in reverse only to find clean dry ground and a strong rock to leap up from, and the useless right arm was really fresh and solid. You could certainly not trick a bear, however as Lyra had demonstrated him, lofur did not want to be a carry, he wished to be a gentleman, and lorek was tricking him.

Eventually he located what this individual wanted: a strong rock deep-anchored in the permafrost. He supported against that, tensing his legs and choosing his moment.

That came when lofur reared high above, bellowing his triumph, and turning his head tauntingly toward lorek’s apparently fragile left side.

That was the moment lorek shifted. Like a say that has been building its power over a 1000 miles of ocean, and which makes very little stir inside the deep drinking water, but which in turn when it reaches the shallows rears on its own up high in to the sky, frightening the shoreline dwellers, ahead of crashing down on the land with impressive power , so lorek Byrnison rose up against lofur, exploding way up from his firm ground on the dried out rock and slashing which has a ferocious left at the subjected jaw of lofur Raknison.

It absolutely was a terrible blow. That tore the bottom of his jaw clean off, so that it flew throughout the air scattering blood drops in the snow many back yards away.

lofur’s red tongue lolled down, dripping above his open up throat. The bear-king was suddenly voiceless, biteless, weak, lorek required nothing even more. He lunged, and then his teeth were in lofur’s neck, and this individual shook and shook that way, that way, lifting the huge physique off the ground and battering that down as though lofur had been no more than a seal with the water’s border.

Then this individual ripped way up, and lofur Raknison’s life came aside in his tooth.

There was one ritual but to perform. lorek sliced open the lifeless king’s unguaranteed chest, old the fur back to show the filter white and red ribs like the timbers of an upturned boat. In the rib cage lorek come to, and he plucked out lofur’s heart, red and steaming, and ate it there in front of lofur’s subject matter.

Then there was acclamation, follon, a smash of carries surging forward to pay homage to lofur’s conqueror.

lorek Byrnison’s tone of voice rose above the clamor.

“Bears! Who is your king? inches

And the cry came back, in a roar like that of all the sea-smooth pebbles in the world in an ocean-battering storm:

“lorek Byrnison! inch

The bears knew what they must do. Each and every badge and sash and coronet was thrown off at once and trampled contemptuously underfoot, being forgotten within a moment. These people were lorek’s holds now, and true carries, not unsure semi-humans conscious only of a torturing inferiority. They swarmed to the structure and began to hurl wonderful blocks of marble from the topmost systems, rocking the battlemented wall space with their great fists before the stones emerged loose, and then hurling them over the cliffs to crash on the jetty hundreds of feet below.

lorek ignored them and unhooked his shield to attend to his wounds, but before he could commence, Lyra was beside him, stamping her foot within the frozen scarlet snow and shouting towards the bears to quit smashing the palace, simply because there were criminals inside. They will didn’t hear, but lorek did, and when he roared they halted at once.

“Human prisoners? inch lorek said.

“Yes , lofur Raknison put them in the dungeons , they ought to appear first and get shield somewhere, else they’ll be wiped out with all the falling rocks , “

lorek gave fast orders, and some bears hurried into the structure to release the prisoners. Lyra turned to lorek.

“Let me help you , I want to be sure to en’t as well badly harm, lorek special , oh yea, I wish there was some bandages or something! That’s a horrible cut in your belly , “

A bear laid a mouthful of a lot of stiff green stuff, thickly frosted, on a lawn at lorek’s feet.

“Bloodmoss, ” said lorek. “Press it in the wounds personally, Lyra. Fold the flesh over it after which hold some snow right now there till this freezes. “

He didn’t let virtually any bears attend to him, irrespective of their eagerness. Besides, Lyra’s hands had been deft, and she was desperate to help, so the tiny human curled over the wonderful bear-king, packing in the bloodmoss and freezing the raw flesh right up until it ended bleeding. When she experienced finished, her mittens had been sodden with lorek’s bloodstream, but his wounds were stanched.

And by that time the prisoners , a dozen approximately men, shivering and flashing and huddling together , had come out. There was simply no point in speaking with the professor, Lyra determined, because the poor man was mad, and she would include liked to be aware of who the other males were, yet there were many other urgent activities. And she didn’t want to distract lorek, who was giving rapid orders and sending carries scurrying by doing this and that, although she was anxious about Roger, and about Lee Scoresby and the werewolves, and she was hungry and tired,. She thought the best thing she could perform just then simply was to keep out of the way.

Therefore she curled up in a quiet part of the combat ground with Pantalaimon as being a wolverine to hold her nice, and stacked snow over herself as being a bear would do, and went to sleep.

Something nudged her foot, and a strange bear tone said, “Lyra Silvertongue, the king desires you. inch

She woke up nearly lifeless with frosty, and couldn’t open her eyes, because had frozen shut, nevertheless Pantalaimon licked them to melt the ice onto her eyelashes, and soon the girl was able to view the young bear speaking to her in the moonlight.

She tried to stand, nevertheless fell over twice.

The bear stated, “Ride about me, ” and crouched to offer his broad back, and half-clinging, half-falling, the lady managed to stick to while this individual took her to a high hollow, exactly where many bears were constructed.

And most notable was a little figure who have ran toward her, and whose daemon leaped about greet Pantalaimon.

“Roger! ” she said.

“lorek Byrnison made me keep out there inside the snow when he arrived at fetch you away , we droped out the balloon, Lyra! When you fell out, we got carried miles and miles, after which Mr. Scoresby let some more gas away and we damaged into a pile, and we chop down down this sort of a slope like you under no circumstances seen! And i also don’t know exactly where Mr. Scoresby is now, neither the witches. There was merely me and lorek Byrnison. He arrive straight again this way to look for you. And they told me about his fight,. “

Lyra appeared around. Beneath the direction of an older bear, the human criminals were building a shelter out of driftwood and scraps of painting. They seemed pleased to have some work to perform. One of them was striking a flint to light a fire.

“There is food, inch said the young keep who had woken Lyra.

A fresh seal place on the snow. The carry sliced that open using a claw and showed Lyra where to find the kidneys. Your woman ate a single raw: it absolutely was warm and soft and delicious over and above imagining.

“Eat the blubber too, inches said the bear, and tore away a piece on her behalf. It felt of cream flavored with hazelnuts. Roger hesitated, nevertheless followed her example. That they ate greedily, and in a very few moments Lyra was fully awake and starting to be nice.

Wiping her mouth, the lady looked about, but lorek was not in sight.

“lorek Byrnison is speaking with his consultants, ” explained the small bear. “He wants to help you when you have enjoyed. Follow me. “

He led all of them over a rise in the snow to a location where bears were beginning to build a wall of ice blocks. lorek sat in the centre of a number of older carries, and he rose to greet her.

“Lyra Silvertongue, ” he said. “Come and hear what I was being told. “

He did not explain her presence towards the other holds, or perhaps that they had learned about her already, but they made room for her and treated her with huge courtesy, like she had been a full. She felt proud beyond measure to sit alongside her good friend lorek Byrnison under the Alboreo as it flickered gracefully in the polar atmosphere, and sign up for the conversation of the holds.

It turned out that lofur Raknison’s dominance above them had been like a mean. Some of them said down to the influence of Mrs. Coulter, who had went to him prior to lorek’s exile, though lorek had not known about it, and given lofur various presents.

“She provided him a drug, inch said one bear, “which he provided secretly to Hjalmur Hjalmurson, and made him forget him self. “

Hjalmur Hjalmurson, Lyra gathered, was the bear who lorek got killed, and whose fatality had brought about his relégation. So Mrs. Coulter was behind that! And there was clearly more.

“There are man laws that prevent selected things that she was planning to do, but human laws avoid apply in Svalbard. She wanted to build another place here just like Bolvangar, just worse, and lofur would definitely allow her to do it, against all the custom made of the contains, because individuals have stopped at, or recently been imprisoned, but never existed and proved helpful here. Slowly and gradually she would definitely increase her power above lofur Raknison, and his over us, until we were her creatures operating back and forth by her bidding, and the only responsibility to guard the abomination the lady was going to create,. “

That was an old bear speaking. His name was S0ren Eisarson, and he was a counselor, one who experienced suffered underneath lofur Raknison.

“What is she doing today, Lyra? inch said lorek Byrnison. “Once she listens to of lofur’s death, what is going to her strategies be? inches

Lyra required out the alethiometer. There was very little light to see it by simply, and lorek commanded that a torch be brought.

“What happened to Mr. Scoresby? ” Lyra said when they were waiting. “And the witches? “

“The werewolves were bombarded by one other witch clan. I can’t say for sure if the other folks were germane to the kid cutters, but they were patrolling our heavens in vast numbers, plus they attacked in the storm. I actually didn’t observe what happened to Serafina Pekkala. As for Lee Scoresby, the balloon jumped up once again after I droped out while using boy, acquiring him with it. However your symbol target audience will tell you what their fortune is. inches

A bear pulled up a sledge which a cauldron of a lot was smoldering, and thrust a resinous branch in the heart than it. The branch caught simultaneously, and in their glare Lyra turned the hands in the alethiometer and asked about Lee Scoresby.

It turned out that having been still in sail, borne by winds toward Nova Zembla, and that he had been unharmed by the cliff-ghasts together fought from the other witch clan.

Lyra told lorek, and this individual nodded, happy.

“If he can in the air, he will probably be secure, ” this individual said. “What of Mrs. Coulter? inches

The answer was complicated, while using needle dogging from sign to image in a sequence that built Lyra challenge for a long time. The bears had been curious, yet restrained by their respect for lorek Byrnison, and his to get Lyra, and she put them out of her head and sank again in the alethiometric state of hypnosis.

The perform of emblems, once the lady had learned the routine of it, was dismaying.

“It says she’s, She’s heard about us traveling this way, and she’s acquired a transportation zeppelin that’s armed with machine guns , I think that is it , and they’re a flying to Svalbard right now. She how to start yet about lofur Raknison being defeated, of course , although she will quickly because, Oh yes, because a few witches can tell her, and they’re going to learn this from the cliff-ghasts. So I think there are agents in the air all around, lorek. Your woman was coming to, to pretend to assist lofur Raknison, but really she would definitely take over electrical power from him, having a regiment of Tartars this is a coming by simply sea, and they’re going to be throughout a couple of days.

“And as soon as the girl can, she’s going to where God Asriel is definitely kept prisoner, and she has intending to include him murdered. Because , It’s coming clear at this point: something I actually never comprehended before, lorek! It’s how come she desires to kill Head of the family Asriel: it’s because she understands what he’s going to do, and she worries it, and she desires to do it very little and gain control ahead of he does,. It must be the city in the sky, it should be! She’s hoping to get to that first! Now it’s showing me something else,. inches

She curled over the device, concentrating intensely as the needle darted this way and that. It transferred almost too fast to follow, Roger, looking over her shoulder, could hardly even view it stop, and was conscious only of a swift nickering dialogue between Lyra’s fingertips turning the hands as well as the needle addressing, as bewilderingly unlike terminology as the Aurora was.

“Yes, ” she stated finally, putting the instrument down in her lap and blinking and sighing as the girl woke away of her profound attention. “Yes, I see what it says. She’s following me once again.

She wants something We’ve got, since Lord Asriel wants it too. They require it pertaining to this, for this experiment, what ever it is, “

Your woman stopped presently there, to take a deep inhale. Something was troubling her, and she didn’t know what it was. She was certain this something that was so important was the alethiome-ter itself, because after all, Mrs. Coulter had wanted it, and what else can it be? And yet this wasn’t, since the alethiometer a new different technique of referring to itself, and this wasn’t it.

“I suppose it’s the alethiometer, inches she stated unhappily. “It’s what I thought all along. I’ve have got to take this to God Asriel ahead of she gets it. If perhaps she gets it, we’re going all perish. “

As she declared that, she felt so exhausted, so bone-deep weary and sad, that to perish would have been a pain relief. But the sort of lorek held her from admitting that. She place the alethiometer aside and seated up straight.

“How far away is she? ” stated lorek.

“Just a few hours. I guess I need to take the alethiometer to Head of the family Asriel as soon as I can. inch

“I will go with you, inches said lorek.

She didn’t argue. While lorek provided commands and arranged an provided squad to accompany them on the last part of their journey north, Lyra sitting still, keeping her energy. She felt that something had gone out of her during that last reading. She closed her eyes and slept, and presently they will woke her and set off.

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