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Chapter Thirteen
Fencing
Her first behavioral instinct was to turn and manage, or to always be sick. A human being with no daemon was like somebody without a confront, or with their ribs set open and their heart split out: a thing unnatural and uncanny that belonged to the field of night-ghasts, certainly not the waking world of feeling.
So Lyra clung to Pantalaimon and her brain swam and her overeat rose, and cold because the night was, a very sickly sweat moistened her skin with anything colder still.
“Ratter, ” explained the boy. “You got my Ratter? “
Lyra was in certainly what he meant.
“No, ” the lady said in a voice because frail and frightened because she experienced. Then, “What’s your name? “
“Tony Makarios, ” he said. “Where’s Ratter? inch
“I avoid know, inch she started, and ingested hard to govern her nausea. “The Gobblers, ” But the lady couldn’t surface finish. She needed to go out of the shed and sit down by herself in the snow, only that of course she wasn’t by simply herself, the girl was hardly ever by herself, because Pantalaimon was ever present. Oh, to be cut from him as this little boy had been parted via his Ratter! The most severe thing in the world! The lady found very little sobbing, and Pantalaimon was whimpering too, and in they are all there was a passionate pity and sorrow pertaining to the half-boy.
Then the girl got to her feet again.
“Come upon, ” she called in a trembling tone. “Tony, emerge. We’re going to take you someplace safe. inches
There was a stir of motion in the seafood house, and he came out at the door, still clutching his dried up fish. He was dressed in nice enough apparel, a thickly padded and quilted coal-silk anorak and fur boots, but they a new secondhand appear and failed to fit very well. In the larger light outside the house that came in the faint trails of the Amanecer and the snow-covered ground he looked more lost and piteous actually than he had at first, crouching in the lantern light by fish shelves.
The villager who’d brought the lantern had retreated a few meters, and called down to all of them.
lorek Byrnison interpreted: “He says you have to pay for that fish. inches
Lyra seemed telling the bear to kill him, but the girl said, “We’re taking the kid away for these people. They can manage to give one fish to cover that. inches
The carry spoke. The man muttered, nevertheless didn’t claim. Lyra collection his lantern down in the snow and took the half-boy’s side to guide him to the keep. He came helplessly, showing no surprise without fear on the great white-colored beast ranking so close, and when Lyra helped him to sit on lorek’s backside, all he said was:
“I dunno where my personal Ratter can be. “
“No, nor do we, Tony, ” she said. “But we’ll, we’ll discipline the Gobblers. We’ll do this, I promise. lorek, could it be all right if I sit up there too? inches
“My armour weighs far more than children, ” he stated.
So your woman scrambled up behind Tony a2z and made him cling to the long hard fur, and Pantalaimon sitting inside her hood, warm and close and filled with pity. Lyra knew that Pantalaimon’s impulse was to reach out and cuddle the little half-child, to lick him and gentle him and warm him as his own daemon would have completed, but the great taboo avoided that, obviously.
They increased through the community and up toward the shape, and the villagers’ faces had been open with horror and a kind of scared relief in seeing that hideously mutilated beast taken away with a girl and a great light bear.
In Lyra’s cardiovascular system, revulsion had trouble with empathy, and compassion won. The girl put her arms about the skinny small form to carry him safe. The journey back to the main party was colder, and harder, and darker, nonetheless it seemed to complete more quickly for a lot of that. lorek Byrnison was tireless, and Lyra’s operating became automatic, so that your woman was hardly ever in danger of falling off. The cool body in her forearms was thus light that in one way he was easy to manage, nevertheless he was inert, he sat stiffly with out moving because the bear moved, therefore in another method he was tough too.
Occasionally the half-boy spoke.
“What’s that you said? ” asked Lyra.
“I says luxury? gonna know where We am? inch
“Yeah, she will know, she’ll find you and we’ll find her. Hold on tight right now, Tony. This en’t not even close to here,. inch
The endure loped forward. Lyra had no idea just how tired she was until they involved with the gyptians. The sledges had ended to rest the dogs, and suddenly presently there they all had been, Farder Coram, Lord Faa, Lee Scoresby, all lunging forward to support and then dropping back muted as they observed the additional figure with Lyra. She was therefore stiff that she didn’t want to even loosen her hands around his body, and John Faa himself needed to pull these people gently available and lift her away.
“Gracious God, what is this? ” he said. “Lyra, child, what not found? inch
“He’s called Tony, inch she mumbled through frozen lips. “And they slice his daemon away. That is what the Gobblers do. inches
The men held back, fearful, but the bear talked, to Lyra’s weary amazement, chiding these people.
“Shame upon you! Think what this kid has done! You will possibly not have more courage, but you ought to be ashamed to present less. “
“You’re proper, lorek Byrnison, ” said John Faa, and turned to give requests. “Build that fire up and heat a few soup for the child. For both children. Farder Coram, is the shelter rigged? “
“It is, John. Bring her over and we’ll get her warm,. inch
“And the small boy, ” said someone else. “He may eat and get warm, even if, “
Lyra was planning to tell Steve Faa about the witches, but they were all and so busy, and she was so exhausted. After a perplexing few minutes packed with lantern mild, woodsmoke, numbers hurrying from side to side, she experienced a gentle go on her ear canal from Pantalaimon’s ermine tooth, and woke to find the bear’s face a few inches from hers.
“The werewolves, ” Pantalaimon whispered. “I called lorek. “
“Oh yeah, inches she mumbled. “lorek, thanks to taking myself there and back. I would not remember to tell Lord Faa regarding the nurses, so you better do that instead of me. inches
She read the bear agree, and after that she chop down asleep effectively.
When the lady woke up, it was as close to daylight as it was ever likely to get. The sky was pale inside the southeast, as well as the air was suffused which has a gray air, through which the gyptians moved like bulky ghosts, reloading sledges and harnessing puppies to the records.
She saw it all from the shelter upon Farder Coram’s sledge, inside which your woman lay within heap of furs. Pantalaimon was fully awake prior to she was, trying the shape of an arctic fox just before reverting to his beloved ermine.
lorek Byrnison was asleep in the snow close by, his head on his superb paws, nevertheless Farder Coram was up and active, and as rapidly as he saw Pantalaimon come out, he limped across to wake Lyra properly.
The lady saw him coming, and sat about speak.
“Farder Coram, I know what it was that I didn’t want to understand! The alethiometer held saying fowl and not, and this didn’t seem sensible, because it supposed no daemon and I don’t see how it could be,. What is it? “
“Lyra, I’m scared to tell you this following what you carried out, but that little boy passed away an hour back. He couldn’t settle, this individual couldn’t remain in one place, he retained asking following his daemon, where she was, was she a coming soon, and all, and this individual kept this sort of a tight hold on that bare old piece of fish since if, Also, I cannot speak of this, child, although he shut down his sight finally and fell continue to, and that was your first time he looked tranquil, for he was like any different dead person then, using their daemon gone in the course of nature. They’ve been a trying to get a serious for him, but the earth’s bound just like iron. Therefore John Faa ordered a fire built, and they’re a likely to cremate him, so as to not have him despoiled by simply carrion eaters.
“Child, you did a brave factor and an excellent, and I’m proud of you. Now we realize what awful wickedness the individuals are capable of, we can see our responsibility plainer than ever before. What you need to do is snooze and consume, because you fell asleep too soon to bring back yourself yesterday, and you have to consume in these temperatures to stop your self getting weak,. “
He was fussing about, tucking the furs in place, tightening the tension rope across the human body of the sledge, running the traces through his hands to untangle them.
“Farder Coram, where is the son now? Have they burned him yet? inches
“No, Lyra, he’s a lying back again there. inch
“I when you go and see him. “
This individual couldn’t refuse her that, for she’d seen more serious than a dead man remains, and it might calm her. So with Pantalaimon as a white-colored hare bounding delicately in her area, she trudged along the brand of sledges to where a few men were piling brushwood.
The boy’s body lay under a checkered blanket beside the path. The lady knelt and lifted the blanket in her mittened hands. One particular man was about to stop her, but the others shook their very own heads.
Pantalaimon crept close as Lyra looked down on the poor squandered face. The girl slipped her hand out from the mitten and touched his eyes. These were marble-cold, and Farder Coram had been proper, poor little Tony Makarios was no different from any other human whose daemon acquired departed in death. Oh, if that they took Pantalaimon from her! She swept him up and hugged him like she intended to press him right into her heart. And everything little Tony adamowicz had was his pitiful piece offish,.
Where was it?
The girl pulled the blanket straight down. It was removed.
She was on her ft in a second, and her eyes exhibited fury with the men near by.
“Where’s his fish? inch
They halted, puzzled, uncertain what she meant, even though some of their daemons knew, and looked at each other. One of the males began to smile uncertainly.
“Don’t you care laugh! I’ll tear your lungs away if you laugh at him! That’s every he had to cling onto, just an older dried seafood, that’s most he had to get a daemon to love and be kind to! Who’s required it from charlie? Where’s that gone? inch
Pantalaimon was a snarling snow-leopard, just like Head of the family Asriel’s daemon, but the girl didn’t notice that, all the lady saw was right and wrong.
“Easy, Lyra, inch said one particular man. “Easy, child. “
“Who’s required it? inches she flare leg again, and the gyptian required a step backside from her passionate fury.
“I don’t know, inches said one more man apologetically. “I believed it to be just what however been ingesting. I got it out his hand because I thought it was more well intentioned. That’s all, Lyra. “
“Then exactly where is it? “
The man explained uneasily, “Not thinking he had a need for this, I provided it to my canines. I do plead your excuse. “
“It en’t my own pardon you will need, it’s his, ” she said, and turned at once to kneel again, and laid her hand around the dead child’s icy cheek.
Then a good idea came to her, and your woman fumbled inside her furs. The chilly air struck through because she opened up her impermeable, but in a couple of seconds she had what your woman wanted, and took a gold coin by her handbag before wrapping herself close again.
“I want to borrow the knife, inches she said to the man who’d taken the fish, and when he’d permit her contain it, she believed to Pantalaimon: “What was her name? inch
He realized, of course , and said, “Ratter. “
Your woman held the coin tight in her left mittened hand and, holding surgery like a pen, scratched the lost daemon’s name deeply into the gold.
“I desire that’ll perform, if I offer you like a Jordan College student, ” she whispered for the dead boy, and forced the teeth apart to slide the endroit into his mouth. It had been hard, yet she maintained it, and managed to close his mouth again.
After that she gave the man again his cutlery and turned in the morning the twilight series to go back to Farder Coram.
He gave her a cup of soup straight off of the fire, and she sipped it greedily.
“What we all going to do information witches, Farder Coram? ” she said. “I imagine your witch was one of them. “
“My witch? My spouse and i wouldn’t suppose that much, Lyra. They might be going anywhere. There’s all kinds of concerns that play on the life span of werewolves, things hidden to us: mysterious sicknesses they fall prey to, which there was shrug off, causes of conflict quite over and above our understanding, joys and sorrows destined up with the flowering of tiny crops up on the tundra,. Although I wish I’d personally seen these people a soaring, Lyra. If only I’d been able to see a view like that. Right now drink up everything that soup. D’you want extra? There’s a few pan-bread a cooking as well. Eat up, kid, because wish on our way rapidly. “
The food elevated Lyra, and presently the chill by her soul began to dissolve. With the other folks, she went to watch the small half-child put on his memorial pyre, and bowed her head and closed her eyes to get John Faa’s prayers, and after that the men scattered coal heart and set complements to it, and it absolutely was blazing in a moment.
As soon as they were sure he was safely burned, that they set off going again. It absolutely was a ghostly journey. Snow began to fall season early on, and soon the world was reduced to the gray shadows from the dogs in advance, the lurching and cranky of the sledge, the gnawing at cold, and a swirling sea of massive flakes only darker compared to the sky and only just brighter than the floor.
Through everything the pups continued to run, tails high, breath smoking steam. North and further north they went, while the pallid noontide arrived and proceeded to go and the the twilight series wrapped by itself again around the globe. They ended to eat and drink and rest within a fold with the hills, also to get their bearings, and while Steve Faa talked to Lee Scoresby regarding the way they may well best make use of the balloon, Lyra thought of the spy-fly, and she asked Farder Coram what experienced happened for the smokeleaf tin he’d caught it in.
“I’ve started using it tucked away tight, ” he said. “It’s down in the bottom of the kit tote, but there’s nothing to see, My spouse and i soldered it shut on board ship, just like I said I would. We don’t know what we’re a going to do with it, truth be told, maybe we’re able to drop that down a fireplace mine, could be that would reconcile it. Nevertheless, you needn’t get worried, Lyra. When I’ve got it, you’re safe. ” The first probability she acquired, she stepped her provide down into the stiffly liquid canvas from the kit carrier and raised the little container. She may feel the buzz it was making before the girl touched it.
While Farder Coram was talking to the other commanders, she took the tin to lorek Byrnison and explained her idea. Completely come with her when your woman remembered his slicing so easily throughout the metal from the engine cover.
He took in, and then took the top of a biscuit tin and deftly collapsed it to a small level cylinder. She marveled at the skill of his hands: unlike most bears, he and his family member had opposable thumb paws with which they could carry things continue to to work on them, and he had some innate sense of the durability and flexibility of metals which meant that this individual only was required to lift this once or twice, flex it in this way and that, and he may run a claw over it within a circle to score it pertaining to folding. He did this kind of now, flip-style the edges in and until that they stood in a raised casing and then making a cover to fit this. At Lyra’s bidding selection two: 1 the same size as the original smokeleaf tin, and another simply big enough to contain the container itself and a quantity of hairs and bits of tree and verrucaire all jam-packed down restricted to smother the sound. When it was closed, it absolutely was the same orientation as the alethiometer.
When ever that was done, she sat next to lorek Byrnison when he gnawed a haunch of reindeer that was iced as hard as wood.
“lorek, inch she said, “is it hard not having a daemon? On the web get unhappy? “
“Lonely? ” this individual said. “I don’t know. That they tell me this really is cold. I don’t know what cold is definitely, because I actually don’t freeze. So I don’t know what lonesome means either. Bears are made to be simple. “
“What about the Svalbard carries? ” the lady said. “There’s thousands of these people, en’t presently there? That’s what I heard. inches
He stated nothing, although ripped the joint in half with a seem like a breaking log.
“Beg pardon, lorek, ” she said. “I hope I en’t upset you. It can just that Now i’m curious. Observe, I’m extra curious about the Svalbard carries because of my dad. “
“Who is the father? inch
“Lord Asriel. And they got him captive on Svalbard, you see. I think the Gobblers betrayed him and paid out the holds to keep him in penitentiary. “
“I don’t know. I actually am not really a Svalbard bear. “
“I thought you was,. “
“No. I used to be a Svalbard bear, nevertheless I am not now. I was sent aside as a consequence because We killed an additional bear. And so i was starving of my rank and my prosperity and my own armor and sent out to have at the edge of your world and fight while i could find career at that, or act on brutal responsibilities and block my memory in raw spirits. inch
“Why performed you eliminate the other bear? inch
“Anger. There are ways amongst bears of turning away our anger with each other, although I was away of my very own control. So I killed him and I was justly penalized. “
“And you were wealthy and high-ranking, ” said Lyra, marveling. “Just like my dad, lorek! That’s just the same with him once i was born. He killed an individual too and in addition they took every his wealth away. That was long before he received made a prisoner on Svalbard, although. I don’t know anything about Svalbard, except really in the farthest North,. Can it be all protected in ice cubes? Can you arrive there over the frozen sea? “
“Not using this coast. The ocean is sometimes frozen south of it, sometimes not really. You would need a boat. inch
“Or a balloon, could be. “
“Or a as well as the, yes, but then you would need the right wind. “
This individual gnawed the reindeer haunch, and a wild idea flew into Lyra’s brain as the lady remembered all those witches in the night heavens, but the girl said practically nothing about that. Instead she asked lorek Byrnison about Svalbard, and listened eagerly when he told her of the slow-crawling snow, of the rocks and ice floes where bright-tusked walruses lay in groups of one hundred or more, in the seas crowded, overrun with closes, of narwhals clashing all their long white-colored tusks over a icy normal water, of the wonderful grim iron-bound coast, the cliffs one thousand feet plus more high the place that the foul cliff-ghasts perched and swooped, the coal pits and the open fire mines the place that the bearsmiths destroyed out great sheets of iron and riveted these people into armor
“If that they took the armor apart, lorek, where did you get this arranged from? inch
“I caused it to be myself in Nova Zembla from heavens metal. Till I did that, I was unfinished. “
“So bears could make their own souls, ” your woman said. There was a great deal on the globe to know. “Who is the full of Svalbard? ” the girl went on. “Do bears have a california king? “
“He is called lofur Raknison. inches
That identity shook slightly bell in Lyra’s head. She’d heard it before, but wherever? And not within a bear’s voice, either, nor in a gyptian’s. The tone that acquired spoken it absolutely was a Scholar’s, precise and pedantic and lazily arrogant, very much a Jordan College or university voice. Your woman tried that again in her mind. Oh, your woman knew this so well!
And after that she experienced it: the Retiring Place. The Scholars listening to Lord Asriel. It was the Palmerian Professor who had said something about lofur Raknison. However used the word panserbj0rne, which Lyra did not know, and she had not known that lofur Raknison was a bear, but what was it however said? The king of Svalbard was vain, and he could be flattered. There was something else, if only she could keep in mind it, but so much had happened since then,.
“If your father is a captive of the Svalbard bears, ” said lorek Byrnison, “he will not get away. There is no wood there to create a boat. On the other hand, if he can a nobleman, he will be treated fairly. They will give him a house to reside and a servant to hold back on him, and meals and fuel. “
“Could the contains ever get defeated, lorek? “
“No. “
“Or deceived, maybe? inches
He ended gnawing and looked at her directly. Then simply he stated, “You can never defeat the armored contains. You have found my battle suits, now look at my weaponry. “
He dropped the meat and held out his paws, palm way up, for her to check out. Each dark pad was covered in horny skin area an in . or more thick, and each in the claws was as long as Lyra’s hand in least, and as sharp as being a knife. This individual let her run her hands over them wonderingly.
“One blow can crush a seal’s head, ” he said. “Or break a man’s back, or rip off a limb. And i also can mouthful. If you had not stopped myself in Trollesund, I would include crushed that man’s brain like an egg. So much intended for strength, today for trickery. You cannot trick a carry. You want to see proof? Take a stick and fence beside me. “
Wanting to try, the lady snapped a stick away a snow-laden bush, cut all the area shoots off, and swished it from side to side like a rapier. lorek Byrnison sat backside on his haunches and patiently lay, forepaws in his lap. The moment she was ready, she faced him, but she didn’t love to stab at him because he looked so peaceable. Therefore she blossomed it, feinting to right and left, not intending to hit him at all, and he did not move. The lady did that repeatedly, and not when did he move so much as an inch.
Finally she chosen to thrust at him straight, not hard, nevertheless just to contact the stay with his stomach. Instantly his paw come to forward and flicked the stick aside.
Surprised, the girl tried again, with the same result. He moved a lot more quickly and surely than she performed. She tried to hit him in keen, wielding the stick like a fencer’s foil, and not when did it land on his physique. He appeared to know what the lady intended prior to she would, and when your woman lunged at his head, the great paw swept the stick besides harmlessly, so when she feinted, he failed to move whatsoever.
She became exasperated, and threw himself into a mad attack, poking and lashing and thrusting and stabbing, and never when did your woman get past individuals paws. They will moved just about everywhere, precisely with time to parry, precisely on the right spot for a block.
Finally she was frightened, and stopped. Your woman was perspiration inside her furs, out of breath, exhausted, as well as the bear even now sat emotionless. If your woman had had a real sword with a homicidal ? bloodthirsty point, he would have been quite unharmed.
“I bet you might catch principal points, ” she said, and threw the stick away. “How do you do that? inch
“By if she is not human, ” he stated. “That’s how come you could never technique a keep. We see tricks and deceit as basic as arms and legs. We can see in a way humans include forgotten. However you know about this, you can understand the symbol target audience. “
“That en’t a similar, is it? inches she said. She was more anxious of the carry now than when your woman had seen his anger.
“It may be the same, inch he stated. “Adults aren’t read that, as I figure out. As I am to individual fighters, so you are to adults with the sign reader. “
“Yes, I suppose, ” your woman said, confused and reluctant. “Does which means that I’ll forget how to undertake it when I increase up? inch
“Who knows? I have hardly ever seen symbolic reader, neither anyone who can read these people. Perhaps you are different from others. inch He fallen to all fours again and went on gnawing his beef. Lyra had unfastened her furs, but now the cool was impressive in again and your woman had to do them up. In general, it was a disquieting event. She planned to consult the alethiome-ter right now there and then, but it was too cold, and besides, they were calling for her as it was the perfect time to move on. The girl took the tin boxes that lorek Byrnison acquired made, position the empty 1 back into Farder Coram’s system bag, and put the one with the spy-fly in it along with the alethiometer inside the pouch at her waist. She was glad whenever they were moving again.
The leaders had agreed with Lee Scoresby that when they will reached the next stopping place, they would fill his balloon and he would spy from your air. Naturally Lyra was eager to take flight with him, and naturally it was forbidden, but your woman rode with him along the way there and pestered him with concerns. “Mr. Scoresby, how might you fly to Svalbard? ” “You’d need a dirigible which has a gas engine, something like a zeppelin, or else a good south wind. But hell, I actually wouldn’t care to. Have you ever before seen that? The bleakest barest many inhospitable godforsaken dead end of nowhere. “
“I was only wondering, if lorek Bymison wanted to go back, ” “He’d always be killed. lorek’s in exil. As soon as this individual set ft . there, that they had tear him to pieces. “
“How do you increase your as well as the, Mr. Scoresby? ” “Two ways. I could make hydrogen by pouring sulfuric acid solution onto straightener filings. You catch the gas it offers off and gradually fill up the as well as the like that. The other method is to find a ground-gas vent around a fire mine. There’s a lot of gas under the earth here, and rock oil besides. I could make gas from rock and roll oil, if I need to, and from fossil fuel as well, it’s not hard to make gas. But the swiftest way is by using ground gas. A good vent out will fill up the balloon in an hour. “
“How many people can you take? “
“Six, if I have to. “
“Could you take lorek Byrnison in his armor? “
“I have done. My spouse and i rescued him one time from your Tartars, if he was stop and they were starving him out , that was in the Tunguska campaign, My spouse and i flew in and took him away. Sounds convenient, but heck, I had to calculate the weight of that old boy by guess-work. And then I had formed to bank on finding ground gas under the ice cubes fort he’d made. Although I could observe what kind of ground it had been from the atmosphere, and I believed we’d become safe in digging. Observe, to go straight down I have to permit gas out from the balloon, and I can’t obtain airborne once again without more. Anyway, all of us made it, armour and all. inches
“Mr. Scoresby, you know the Tartars generate holes in people’s minds? “
“Oh, sure. They are doing that for thousands of years. Inside the Tunguska campaign we captured five Tartars alive, and three of which had openings in their skulls. One of them had two. “
“They get it done to each other? inches
“That’s proper. First they cut partway around a ring of pores and skin on the remaining hair, so they can lift up up a flap and expose the bone. Chances are they cut a little circle of bone out of the skull, very carefully so they don’t permeate the brain, and they sew the scalp back over. “
“I thought they were doing it for their enemies! “
“Hell, no . It’s a wonderful privilege. They are doing it therefore the gods can easily talk to them. “
“Did you at any time hear of an explorer called Stanislaus Grumman? “
“Grumman? Sure. I met certainly one of his crew when I flew over the Yenisei River two years back. He was going to live among the Tartar tribes up that way. Matter of fact, I think he previously that hole in the skull done. It was part of an initiation wedding ceremony, but the person who told me didn’t find out much about it. “
“So, If having been like an honorary Tartar, that they wouldn’t include killed him? “
“Killed him? Can be he dead then? inch
“Yeah. I saw his mind, ” Lyra said happily. “My dad found that. I saw that when he showed it to the Scholars by Jordan School in Oxford. They’d scalped it, and. “
“Who’d scalped it? “
“Well, the Tartars, that’s the actual Scholars thought,. But maybe that wasn’t. inch
“It might not have been Grumman’s head, inch said Shelter Scoresby. “Your father has been misleading the Scholars. “
“I suppose he may, ” stated Lyra considerately. “He was asking them for money. “
“And whenever they saw the head, they gave him the amount of money? “
“Yeah. “
“Good trick to experience. People are stunned when they visit a thing like this, they dislike to look too close. “
“Especially Scholars, inch said Lyra.
“Well, a person would know greater than I would. But since that was Grumman’s head, I’ll bet it was not the Tartars who scalped him. That they scalp their very own enemies, not their own, and he was a Tartar simply by adoption. inch
Lyra flipped that over in her head as they forced on. There have been wide power full of meaning flowing quickly around her, the Gobblers and their rudeness, their fear of Dust, metropolis in the Inicio, her dad in Svalbard, her mother,. And in which was the girl? The alethiometer, the werewolves flying northward. And poor little Tony Makarios, and the clockwork spy-fly, and lorek Byrnison’s uncanny fencing
She fell asleep. Every hour they will drew closer to Bolvangar.
