As darkness fell, tood.

        In    toention tle figure beside tone resonator, and every ot ed, every part of ed to t came to tone u.

        King Ogun in ter, sly    a plan to ter tentions of torial Court,    from t. tor . tial tting troops on t ers er t till some way behind.

        In torial Court, ttending to t. teen bolts a mi a spin and made te as a rifle. It ,    advantage.

        Mrs. Coulter lay arao tless, and frustrated: ts    to torment.    by Mrs. Coulters sleeping bag, scratctle    t settled in the rock.

        Lyra lay    and almost as restless, but deep, deep asleep, locked into oblivion by t    ime, and no urned, and little ic resolution s and , making Pantalaimon grind    teethy.

        Not far aossed pines on t patoried to explain to Ama    , and    sed. o move calmly and speak quietly in order to keep o let ake to tell    o be used. In to say simply, "Keep very quiet and follo; and    she would.

        Iorek, in ing to o give ill enougime to    Lord Asriels force ime to time brougant clatter to Ioreks ears, but w zeppelin engines sounded like, er, and .

        Balt o tell t ill roubled about    to o , distracted, and sullen. And t, in turn, made it o talk to Ama.

        As to t;Balt;

        "Yes," said tunelessly.

        "Baltay ay close and ;

        "I    abandoned you yet," said the angel.

        t    ill could get out of him.

        Far above in ting midair, tialys and Salmakia soared over trying to see doo tly as told, but t easily cope ossed about dangerously in ter of trees, and to brang thering dark.

        ill and Ama crept up in t to t point t ill out of sig o be be off t a he air.

        tion of ground o a bleace ground s cratered ttering sounds over a wide silence.

        Ama folloect    must be ing tly place; and ing at once, became a lizard and scampered over t.

        ill sa    t moonligern once ers cave. o open it quickly, pull Lyra t again at o was safer.

        opped on to Ama: "e must be very quid pletely silent. No noise, not even a w;

        Sood, tetle packet of po: s a dozen times, and sask so often t s in total darkness.

        te rocks, ill measuring tance carefully until imated t the cave.

        took t t possible window humb and forefinger.

        o it quickly to keep t out and looked t all    sky; er, asleep, ail, trailing negligently over the sleeping bag.

        C see oo close?    t ep or two, and opened again.

        S there.

        "Listen," o Ama and ;t see o find    t. So stand back, keep out of t actally cut you uck t by t;

        "e s; Ama said, "because I koo."

        ubborn, ogets c slowly around his neck.

        ill said, "O e silence, and you do exactly    once, you uand?"

        Sted    yet again to che medie.

        ill made a small opening, lo sly, getting t oen seds.

        taking some moments to adjust from t rees, but belo oo. It     far away.

        it hand, ill balanced himself carefully and looked around.

        Ama ; but Lyra    at t about it.

        ill raised ook a long, steady look doorance, wer and her daemon lay deep in sleep.

        And t sank. tret t o Mrs. Coulter. tlines    seen her.

        ill touced.

        "ell just o do it very carefully," he whispered.

        Sometside. trees, and lig, too, s Lyra out, tter, and t meant darting doer ting to safety, and closing again.

        to Ama. She nodded.

        t to move, Mrs. Coulter woke up.

        Sirred and said sometantly to . ill could see te iive, and ter    up, s t outside.

        ills left ig. Mrs. Coulter got up, fully dressed, lit, not at all as if s been asleep. Perime. Sg, as t from to side above treetops and ts, male voices    clear t t, very fast.

        ill squeezed Amas    and darted forcumbled, running fast and low.

        t Lyras side, and salaimon around    carefully, and a sed later to pull Lyra to safety…

        But    Mrs. Coulter. Surned around silently, and ted off t    it     all; it     t, and o the ground.

        It was broken.

        No    at all.

        o Ama, "ake    no;

        tood up, ready to figra monkey first. eo meet its leap, and ill    of t least    to    h.

        But ttack eiter. Stle to let t from outside sol in    some of t s Ama o rils by using ail as a brush.

        ill side: te no sounded familiar, like an intrusion from ter of a er. ts s across trees outside, in a brilliant green scatter of radiance.

        Mrs. Coulter turned briefly as to    too briefly for ill to jump and seize t ill    blinking, crouc.

        Lyra    doing o him.

        Outside t, and a man fell out of to land    five yards from trao ter didnt flined back to ill. A moment later ter t, a storm of sing broke out, and ts of gunfire.

        Lyra ruggling up into sciousness, gasping, sigo fall back alaimoo one side as o act.

        As for ill, most care for time to    o gat up safely. As ed it carefully, every nerve in    into te easily, because tal caugside: seven of t being t itself. urned back to try and make sense of t outside.

        Some t difficult for ts to    steady. Meaners o land o a time, and to make t    from the swaying zeppelins.

        By time, botroops. Some rees. But    reacill t lay er.

        ill said above the noise:

        " are you going to do?"

        "ive."

        ", as ages? ake any notice of t? t to kill us all any;

        "One force does, certainly," s;but Im not sure about t ;

        Sside, ill saw her face full of joy and life and energy.

        "You broke t; he said.

        "No, I didnt. I ed it ."

        Lyras voice came urgently: "ill?" stered. "Is t ill?"

        "Lyra!"    quickly beside    up.

        "s ; Lyra said. ";

        "ere in a cave. Dont move too fast, youll get dizzy. Just take it carefully. Find your strengt;

        ill    se to be aing aking muc. Ama cimidly, for ne girl isfa: she was here, she was real.

        t on a rock. Lyra held his hand and rubbed her eyes.

        "s ; she whispered.

        "Ama    some poo ; ly, and Lyra turo t time, and put ;I got ; ill    on, "but some soldiers did, too. I dont kno as soon as ;

        Outside, t; one of ters aken a fusillade from a zeppelins ma top, and it burst into flames, not only killing t also preventing ters from landing.

        Anot o reinforce tion. Mrs. Coulter ing it ook careful aim before firing. ill sa side.

        If s again, , Ill rusuro o Balt tead, ill sa trembling and whimpering.

        "Balt; ill said urgently. "e on, t    you! And you o , you kno, youre not a coward, and we need you...”

        But before thing else happened.

        Mrs. Coulter cried out and reaeously teth a snarl of glee.

        A voice, a    somee, came from the monkeys paw:

        "tialys! tialys!"

        It iny    one of    s in pain. Ama kill orn it off, but ill leapt forers hand.

        And    t ter fell still, and ill became araalemate.

        ter terly motionless. orted    s move, because standing on iny man     ening    o cry out a moment before.    ung her ankle.

        But ttle man couldnt    Mrs. Coulter anymore, because of t tle man dug o Mrs. Coulters jugular vein. None of them could move.

        Breato goverurned ear-daso ill and said calmly, "So, Master ill, ;
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