It    after Lyra aken, just after ill aintop, just after tc ttle tin lantern aken from c , and crouco open Lyras rucksack.

        inside -er. It glittered in tern lig out to tood beside hemselves angels.

        " you read t; he said.

        "No," said a voice. "e    e. e noo Lord Asriel."

        " kno;old me to expect you. .    you?"

        "No o us. Ourselves only," came t;e    to serve Lord Asriel. And t did    you to do ;

        ill o ate.

        "ake it to Lord Asriel," he said.

        "t;

        "No. Not till Ive found Lyra."

        over ter and put it into ,    teadily at two shadows.

        "Do you tell trut; he said.

        "Yes."

        &quer t;

        "eaker. You rue fles. Still, you must e ;

        "No. If Im stronger, you o obey me. Besides, I    care    takes, Ill find    and to Lord Asriel."

        t for several seds. ted aogethough

        ill could    they said.

        Finally they came close again, and he heard:

        "Very ake, t;

        ill tried to pierce t the rain filled his eyes.

        "e closer so I    see you," he said.

        t seemed to bee even more obscure.

        "Ster in daylig;

        "No,    of a ;

        "ell, if I t see you, no one else ay    be far aook ell me ;

        to tormy air and vanis a great sullen tle over tle strengt before t ed to do was close h weeping.

        ugged tco , and fell asleep in a moment.

        "Now; said a voice.

        ill    in truggled to ually (and it took most of a minute, because o open o t m in front of him.

        "; he said.

        "Beside you," said t;t;

        t in t, but nowhere could he see a figure.

        "I said    on. "You    at , at dusk or da best in darkness; least of all in tain, and fouer er."

        "A dead man?    does ;

        "e middle age. Flesraces of a    around ;

        "Sir C; said ill. "ts er must s somet least."

        "S traces. My panion urn ;

        ill got to    and looked around. torm ressing; for nearby lay tced oing al-beaked carrion cr at t feast.

        ill looked at ea, but none of tcicular friend. t s suddenly on anot long before the evening?

        So s still be alive. t c found not tion he looked.

        "; o the angel.

        "Beside you," came t;as al;

        ill looked to , hing.

        "So no one    see you. Could anyone else ;

        "Not if I artly.

        " is your name? Do you ;

        "Yes, ;

        ill sidered o do.    of many, all t take are snuffed out like dles, as if ted. At t all ills ced at once. But to keep tence meant doing noto cer all.

        "ell go back doain," ;ell go to t lake. t be sometting ty a is and you    guide me if I go ;

        It    ill realized    ing. In fact,    t of his wound since he woke up.

        opped and looked at t    after t. It ment , but t a sign of blood; and after t bleeding , t     leap almost h joy.

        ally. true, till , but    quality of pain: not t a smaller, duller sensation. It felt as if it c her had healed him.

        he slope, cheered.

        It took to ttle blue lake. By time , , and in t, took it off, s cover, for    feo ter, to fall on er freezing mout    it made eeth and skull ache.

        Once ,    up and looked around. ion to notice t noer, and rident i noises from all around.

        "Balt;

        "Always ;

        ";

        "Beyond t."

        "Are ters around?"

        "No, none. I dont ers , and nor ;

        ill took up o ted out.

        Beyond it a little camp    up, ents and till alive and hiding.

        But t scrapings only scratc t. tents ill, ter ill drifting slo from    briefly, but it iny lizard.

        tents erial,    more among the dull red

        rocks.    and found it empty. So    in tin and a box of matcrip of some dark substance as long and as t first    it    in t    clearly to be dried meat.

        ell, er all.    a t cly salty, but full of good flavor.    t and tcogetin is, but found ty.

        t till last.

        "Is t he air.

        "Yes," said Balt;;

        ill o trance, ole er, urn led ill to tle kself. Sir d poed unpleasantly, and ill didnt    to look at it, but a glanside tent s ty of to steal, so epped over to look more closely.

        ly o take. ill o guess. ook a small magnifying glass in a steel case, because    to ligcougeen for er, mucer tskin flask in cup; a small pair of binoculars; a roll of gold s t-aid kit; er-purifying tablets; a packet of coffee; t; a bag of oatmeal biscuits; six bars of Kendal Mint Cake; a packet of fisebook and a couple of pencils, and a small electric torch.

        all in    anot, filled een from to Balthamos:

        "Do you t;

        "You could do ; came t;Some faculty to enable you tnize o resped obey it."

        "Are you ;

        "Muc;

        "ell, you see, I t tell. Are you a man? You sound like a man."

        "Baruow ;

        "So...” ill stopped s tom, and tried to see to see. "So ;    on, "and t w ;

        "Not al in t majority of cases...Very rarely."

        ";

        "Four t;

        "And did ;

        "In yours. But t."

        "But ;

        " is t of tapion?"

        "I just    to kno;

        "Better to stick to your task. You y, you oys you o keep you alive; no;

        "o go."

        ";

        "till find us if ay    a couple more to do."

        ill sat do Cake. It    as to nouris ter again. ty-six little pictures painted on ivory    t t a puppet, t    t was obscure.

        "; o Balthamos.

        "Quite possibly s up. truments udied for many years, and even tand t;

        "S making it up. S truly. Sold me t;

        "t is as mucery to me, I assure you," said the angel.

        Looking at ter, ill remembered somet reading it: somet tate of mind so be in to make it    urn, to feel tleties of the silver blade.

        Feeling curious, ook out t a small    of     blue air, but belorees and fields:    a doubt.

        So mountains in t correspond to mountains in     time. to use it again!

        to    felt like aric shock.

        If this one and his own?

        Surely it s into any of them.

        up agaiing o tip of told il led among toms t every tiny snag and ripple in the air.

        Instead of cutting as soon as    t little , as    to anot rag a roitcly t none of them was harmed.

        " are you doing?" said the air, bringing him back.

        "Expl," said ill. "Be quiet and keep out of t cut, and if I t see you, I t avoid you."

        Balted distent. ill    t for tiny s and ations.

        t. And as    t to cut t o quality: te, t one cloudy; a ttle and frail...

        But among t more easily t oo be sure: his own world again.

        up a ip for a snag    quality.    id resistant, as hrough.

        A     green fields and    a desert of rolling dunes.

        and opened anotrial city, h a line of ed and

        sullen rudging into a factory.

        ooo, and came back to    a little dizzy. For t time ood some of true po very carefully on t of him.

        "Are you going to stay ; said Balthamos.

        "Im to anot is, and maybe ts ting-to kno like    or you mig back. Youd be lost forever."

        "Indeed. But may we...”

        "And youd o kno in opening it," said ill, as muco o t;So its not as easy as I t. e    lucky in Oxford and Cittagazze, maybe. But Ill just..."

        o ion oucy of resonance, like triking a    of course t it came, like every oti movement ty air.

        t was.    somew was again.

        t . t t t a grassy upland meado sky, in    of stiff heir backs.

        epped t animal looked up incuriously and turned back to t    for tried them.

        Yes, ill    meant ttagazze-.

        it back to t get lost; no safely.

        itrengt    and she rucksack over his shoulder.

        "ell, are you ready no; said t sarcastic voice.

        "Yes. Ill explain if you like, but you dont seem very ied."

        "Oever you do a source of perpetual fasation. But never mind me.    are you going to say to t;

        ill looked around, startled. Fartrail, a long ravelers eadily up to seen , but if ayed whey would soon.

        ill gat    was dry. hing else he could carry.

        "Lets go fart; he said.

        o retie t it could .    off along travelers, and t air.

        Mucer t day tains onto a spur covered in grass and dwarf r, and soon, op.

        tle from time to time Balt;Not t ; or "to t," a really o keep aravelers, because until t as well ayed whey were.

        Noting,    range panion. tline of a man seemed to quiver in t, and t.

        "Balt; ;I    to find a stream. Is t;

        "t; said t;just above trees."

        "t; said ill.

        een. But before o ttle ion from Balturo see line dart across to, and ill could see ter    ly; but o pause, and listen, and to to skim back sly to ill.

        "; ;Baruvisible. e, e. e no;

        ill folloen. t, opened onto a dim, tundra-like landscape t ter tains in ttagazze    sky.    t once.

        "; ill said.

        "to follo;

        ";

        "Of course I read    goes ;

        ill looked around. te as t failed.

        "I dont    to sleep ; ;ell stay in ttagazze    and e t least t    ake any ot;

        "o do t?"

        "In t    oened of me at first because of t. So if o travel in o pretend to be my daemon, and take t least."
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