Almost at time, tempter    to folloempted herself.

        "ts all I need, no more, ly, t; said Dr. Mary Maloo tried to give han she could carry.

        ted arees; but o ttle vine-sered farm    to let her go.

        "I must go on," said Mary again, "t carry, o, anottle k you...”

        tly sa ters. Stagazze, sation, enouger-eaten adults and    aay ed o, because so move on.

        S little goats cs vine leaf, smiled and boook a last drink from t bubbled up among tly togeturned firmly a.

        S. t unication ities sicles, and Lyra called Dust, er, and at tru sroyed t. Noold o go to find raordinary ot, ask o find t,    meant.

        So s rack ao look fuidance.

        Ole farmstead to be sure s be disturbed, s urees and opetom, y years: a entary on tion, the I g.

        Saken it imental:    to    a lot as a sc ory, s;s t?" and poio ter on t sly afterer, Lyra    Dust o    used those symbols.

        So in    pag to leave aken    tle yarroalks . And noime o use them.

        Sing, dividing and ting aing aside, e, curious teenager, and    fotten o do it, but sual ing back, and    a sense of t calm and trated attention t played sut part in talking to the Shadows.

        Eventually so t indicated t part, because tself in sucic style. She read:

        turning to t

        For provision of nouris

        Brings goo d fortun e.

        Spying about h sharp eyes

        Like a tiger iable craving.

        t seemed encing. Sary t led il so: Keeping still is tain; it is a bypat means little stones, doors, and openings.

        So guess. tion of "openings" recalled terious ered t o say t she should go upward.

        Botalks a off up th.

        Four er s and tired. track sered out, and s among tumbled boulders and smaller stoo    toended vineyards and abandoned o    a scree of small rocks and gravel sloped up to a cliff of crumbling limestone.

        earily sed     on t flat stone, but before sransferred , sopped. t c tried to find it again.

        "And t    glass tention-cats in it, just a square patc ttle stones, doors, and openings.

        It    because of t:    probably    s all.

        Stle patce curiosity, because s ime to look at t one: so get a sail, touco see    became invisible from ting te differe, and found    bursti t sugs could be.

        t, at about time of tion, oo careless to close it, but at least    t a point very similar to t to a rock face. But t, not limesto granite, and as Mary stepped to t at t of a to almost at top of a locrop overlooking a vast plain.

        It o breat aste t rushing.

        ide golden ligo begin    of it e variety of buff-broly in a    t so be laced t looked like rivers of rock    gray surface.

        And sedly, ands of tallest trees Mary tending a aken time out to look at t redrees, and marveled; but rees opped t least. t trunks gold-red in t.

        And finally, ures, too far off to see distinctly, grazed eness about t t s quite .

        Sely tired, and ty and rickle of a spring, and only a mier s: just a seepage of clear er from a mossy fissure, and a tiny stream t led aefully, and filled tles, and t about making able, fht was falling rapidly.

        Propped against te some of ts    fell deeply asleep.

        Stled in tiny beads on es lapped in fres human being who had ever lived.

        S up, yaretg a couple of dried figs and taking stock of the place.

        Betle rise s vie, across t immense prairie. trees lay to to tes of dust.

        Loading o t stand of trees, four or five miles away.

        t ercups, like floints to top segment of humb,

        visiting a blue flo as it backed out of tals and took to t it , for a moment later it made for    most delicad taking flig found ar. It e s bronze-featoo fast for o see.

        o she was seeing!

        Sting closer to a ures s     telopes, and similarly colored, but ill and rub    of tion: ter, o t, and one uail, so t tion. Mary loo examine a skeleton and see ructure worked.

        For t, tures regarded o go closer and take time to look at t it ting , and t trees looked inviting; and ty of time, after all.

        Before long sepping out of to one of tone so .

        It mig black, but t    retly easier to he grass.

        Sorees. t, tounded srunks, as ed, as tall, as tall as... S even make a guess.

        o t trunk, sed ons as long as    and fragrant to le flock of tiny terfly oo many cra. the air was full of humming and buzzing and scraping.

        Sillness, tructures, thin herself.

        It aken    it o ting on tos of lig vertical. Dro move urees during ttest part of the day.

        S.

        Feeling too    to move any farto rest bets of one of t trees, o a doze.

        y minutes or so, and s quite asleep, w she ground.

        t up and gats, and sa t resolved itself into a round object, about t across, rolling along to a , and falling on its side.

        And tc craso ttress-like root of t trunk and roll away.

        t of one of to make ake    of toget hey? Seedpods?

        atcured uo look at t of ts. S uprig out of t on to look at it more

        closely.

        It ly circular and as ter, aco tree. It     it    not tried    made no impression at all.

        fragra. S ter t glistening, and as souc again, s it slide easily under    was exuding a kind of oil.

        Mary laid t about this world had evolved.

        If    t, and tiple ed by quantum t off from ion rees and large creatures on.

        So see ifiy, no geology, no biology of any sort, s as a baby.

        And to locate until s moving along one of toand of trees, and to a mile a it    moving slowly, and all of a sudden s afraid.

        Sed bato t roots and crammed o it, peering over ttress beside    to cloud.

        s first it looked like a motorcycle gang. t it    . But she was.

        tures, but leaner and gray-colored,    trunks like eleps. tructure as t some and rear single legs, a wheel.

        But    in nature, ed; t; you needed an axle    ely separate from tating part, it couldnt    was impossible…

        to a    not fifty yards a settled, sion, and s    loud tle coug.

        tly round, immensely , t ter. tures er of t and rear legs, and used teral legs to pus t ttle anxious, for t tance selligend curiosity in their gaze.

        And they were looking for her.

        One of tted taken out of trundled off to. , ed it onto an edge runk and rolled it over to his panions.

        touc delicately runks, and serpreting t cs tampered    was wrong.

        t: I came    uand it yet. Be bold. take tiative. So sood up and very self-sciously called:

        "Over    your seedpod. Im sorry. Please dont ;

        Instantly trunks , glittering eyes fag for.

        Sepped out of ter of ts and faced tly. S    sucure migo creatures ill, it o the road.

        Close up, not five steps a tention ures    from the grazing animals nearby as a human was from a cow.

        Mary poio ;Mary."

        t creature reacs trunk. S touc, : "Merry."

        " are you?" she said.

        "ata; ture responded.

        All s;I am a ; she said.

        "Ayama yuman," said ture, and tures laughed.

        trunks ossed ts came takable sound of merriment. S : soo.

        ture moved foroucs trunk. Mary offered o its soft, bristled, questing touch.

        "A; s;youre smelling t;

        "Seepot," said ture.

        "If you    make t be able to unicate, one day. God knoo herself again.

        Notc again: "Mary."

        t creature toucs o s trunk and spoke. as it ture spoke again, and time Mary tried o make t;Mulefa," sentatively.

        Oted, "Mulefa" in o be teasing ture ; t were a fine joke.

        "ell, if you    laug suppose youll eat me," Mary said. And from t moment, tween    nervous no more.

        And tself relaxed: to do, t roaming at random. Mary sa one of ts back, ao it, making it secure by tying straps around it,    and intricate movements of trunks. ood still, teral legs, and    and back legs to steer. ts were full of grad power.

        One of to ts trunk to utter a trumpeting call. to trot toood patiently at t tures move slooug.

        t runk; and to runk delicately to Marys mouth.

        At first s tation in tures eye, so she came fain and opened her lips.

        ture expressed a little of t, to cure    Mary impulsively put ures , dusty runk.

        Presently trumpeted softly and to leave.

        S joy t t t t surprise as well.

        One of tures self, kneeling d s trunk, and ting    about it: to carry o take hem.

        Anotook e to to put    of tures, or be could so?

        But before s out, ture o move ahem.

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