Ama, ter, carried t stop t    question for a moment trut Mrs. Coulter old ed, beyond a doubt, and it oo likely t t sleeping spells, and t a moter in t fierd tender ion amounting almost to ed daughter.

        S as often as so ttle valley, to run errands for to cter and listen, for tales to tell. Again and again s it ed t it would probably never be allowed again.

        And during time s milking to make bread, s incessantly about t must , and about w er old o imagine.

        One day sook some flat bread sened rail to Cery. By er o gain an audience    ulku, e fever only the year before, and who was immensely wise.

        Ama e mans cell, bo daemon sed around ening    into o    Ama tried to remain still and silent until Pagdzin tulku spoke.

        "Yes, c; h every word.

        In t eyes    of led on till at last, so s;Please, Pagdzin tulku, I    to gain o knos.    you teac;

        "No," he said.

        Sing t. "ell, could you tell me just one remedy?" she asked humbly.

        "Maybe. But I    tell you    is. I    give you t tell you t."

        "All rig is a great blessing," simes.

        " is t?" the old man said.

        "Its a sleeping siess," Ama explained. "Its e upon t;

        Sra clever, s in case the cave.

        "And ;

        "tulku," s;so ;

        " s e to me? ;

        "Because tulku. I only erday and I came at oo seek your advice."

        "I sient and examiions of ts at t be done in a ;

        "Is to take back?"

        t daemon fell off tered blackly aside before s ting silently across too quickly for Ama to follo t eyes of tly o box, apping out a spoonful of poed them.

        ipped all ts into a mortar and ground togettering a spell as apped tle on tar, dislodging took a bruse some cers on a s of paper. ipped all to tion and folded tly into a little square package.

        "Let to trils of ttle at a time as ; old ;and    o be done    caution. too mud est of brus;

        "tulku" said Ama, taking t in t of    s. "I ;

        "One is enoug; said t;No time you e, tell me trut part of it."

        to    given too much away.

        evening so t rice    leaf. Sing to tell t so give    of all for ted sleeper to alk to hey could be friends!

        But as surie ty. S fe t in, and t, and everything else.

        Ama looked into t beating fast. Surely t    ter patc he curve of her sleeping daemon.

        S a little closer. t about it, t aed girl alone.

        A t struck Ama like a musiote: suppose surned...

        But sime to feel t idea before sside, and in a s sed be t be    was wrong.

        And no golden moing in trance, sniffing and turning . Ama sa o hes, mouse-formed

        and trembling.

        " is it?" said to to trance. ". S e in, t arrange a spot on to leave t."

        it a gla tooped t to life, a a pan of er to    o time    up and looked around tting cramped and unfortable in ly t sed outside and not gone in. o be trapped?

        to ting er. Ama could smell tri flavors as ted out eam. tirring. Ama turned ed sleeper moving, tossing from side to side, throwing an arm across her eyes. She was waking!

        And took no notice!

        S, because s surned back to er. Sion into a beaker a stand, and only turention to the waking girl.

        Ama could uand none of t sh increasing wonder and suspi:

        "; t;Dont ;

        &quer," t;Serafina! ;

        "No one    us," ;Lift yourself a Mama was;

        Ama cruggling into ried to puso ter and mopped at ers fad body before patting her dry.

        By time to move more quickly.

        "    to sleep, No, no! I ! No!"

        teely-firm rying to lift Lyras head.

        "Be still, dear, be calm, ea...”

        But t and nearly spilled the drink, and cried louder:

        "Leave me alone! I    to go! Let me go! ill, ill, help me, oh, help me…”

        tig h.

        "I ! You dare toucear your , I ...”

        t a o s-s-fox-bird-wolf-ca-

        But talaimon became a pore.

        t go. tuck ser snarled and    t; and before Lyra could gats, t o swallow or choke.

        Ama oo muco    little by little it died ao sleep, enced sleep? Poisoned sleep! Drugged, deceitful sleep!

        Ama sareak of erialize at t as fully co a long, sinuous, snoure    black eyes and black-tipped tail, and laid himself alongside her neck.

        And tly, ing baby songs, smootting    face dry,    of nonsense syllables, la-la-la, ba-ba-boo-boo,    voice mouthing gibberish.

        Eventually t stopped, and took a pair of scissors and trimmed t to see t effect. Sook one dark blond curl and put it in a little gold locket sell . But t to ... e.

        t t of to to snatg bat from ttle black t pierced Ama from oo t to    and out and out till it snapped and broke aring of sines fellotle t limb by limb, and te a box of ce.

        time passed. Lighe woman and her daemon fell asleep.

        Ama, stiff and painful, crept up from iptoed out past t make a sound till sh.

        itrail,     motion of treetops, ted clouds in tars all calmed tle.

        Sopped in sigtle one .

        "S; Ama said. "So us!     ell Dada?     ;

        "Dont tell," said ;More trouble. eve got take ;

        t filled t it tle paper package , and to use it.

        —

        see    me...”

        "O be frigeoo, Ill go mad...”

        tried to ig ty air. Lyra tried to say le pale fa the darkness:

        "Im just trying to    to ! I    care if it    for an    kno, even, but I will ;

        "But if youre dreaming, Lyra, you mig believe it    t ;
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