Mary Malone rug a mirror. Not out of vanity, for stle of t, but because sed to test an idea sed to try and catc truments in ory so improvise erials at hand.

        Mulefa tectle use for metal. traordinary tone and als tive s of copper and otals t toolmaking. tal. Mulefa couples, for example, oering marriage, he same meaning as a wedding ring.

        So ted by t    valuable possession.

        Atal, tif onis one day tac ure magnifying glass, o burn a design onto a dry branc    w    Shadows.

        t time, but t    t lie across ter and sat on talked, until Mary sae surface. So ted Atal; but as ted up from t ouc: If tist in ten million years found it, till find S, because Ive .

        Sed into a sun-doped reverie until Atal asked:

        are you dreaming?

        Mary tried to explain about ory, ticles, tastical revelation t tale gripping    so be back among .

        S expect Atal to folloly because of    and of t partly because tical, sly rooted in t sical; but Atal surprised her by saying,

        Yes, ... and t sounded like t.

        Mary said, Light?

        Atal said, Not lig... and said to cat er    su, and t es off in brig t, but it is a make-like.

        Make-like erm for metaphor, Mary had discovered.

        So s is not realty lig you see it and it looks like t liger at su?

        Atal said, Yes. All too. t is    like t . Even t    Mary couldnt e clearly enougo say: sometrunk.

        Mary ed. So keep o find t words.

        do you kno it!    e from?

        From us, and from tals reply, and Mary kne seedpod wheels.

        From you?

        trees it    vanis stays among us.

        o keep . One of to suspect about S cs reacted to tly, or attracted different kinds of Sivity.    Lyra said t tists in    about Dust, w was again.

        And it ed to o er s just before s ever it ion, it o do    cory symbolized in tory of Adam and Eve; emptation, tigations among fossil skulls,    around ty t increase aken pla ticles associated    in evolution, to make ts.

        So Atal:

        here been mulefa.

        And Atal said:

        ty-thousand years.

        So read Marys expressions by time, or t obvious of t least, and s ter ious t Mary usually o join in, but now sounded and said:

        ly? Do you ory of all those years?

        Oal. Ever since hing.

        o give you the sraf?

        e discovered o use ture o play, and as she played she…

        She?

        Sself the snake said...

        to her?

        No, no! It is a make-like. tory tells t t; do you kno; So t;Put your foot t; So s a foot in    range and pleasant t sed to s at once h

        e took t t grazers. tree, and all tures and plants.

        Because t, said Mary.

        Yes, to use to ride to gee tayed    to plant more seedpod trees for t t ted. So t mulefa sa do to rees, rees ogether.

        Mary directly uood about a quarter of al    by questioning and guessing s t quite accurately; and ime. t it became, as eac suggested ions, eac dire.

        But ser t of sraf, because t ; and t    the mirror.

        It o ter t suggested it. Reflected lig mig ticles, oo.

        I t see sraf as you , s I o make a mirror out of t mig.

        Atal ed by t at ond began to gat Mary needed. As a token of good luck t.

        t of anotree, ed for t purpose. By boiling t in tilled fruit juice, tance like milk in sistency, and delicate amber in color, o ty coats on a base of ing eac clot, and gradually build up a surface of great    opaque    sometimes t it transparent, and t ed Mary: because ty as t split lig w you saw double.

        S sure o do, except t s if s fretting, ging . Sing t Keats to Lyra, and Lyras uanding at o e of mind    was w Mary o find now.

        So s piece of a    tone (al: no planes) until it    as s. t    .

        ted tal,    sending, and asked permission to take some sap. to let    too busy to be ed. itals icky, resinous sap, and til to use.

        ttony fiber from anot to apply it, and follorus of a craftsman, sed ime as t letting it cure un ted on over forty coats, s t, but by time , t least five millimeters thick.

        After tly, in smoots, until he labor no more.

        t.

        m t to    s , tiger ticks ighter spaces.

        It uro ttlement, t Mary could begin to experiment, or rato play, since sill didnt    she was doing.

        First sried using t simply as a mirror, but for lack of a silvered back, all sion faintly in the wood.

        t t    s t;    flat    a bag anyway?

        tting to leave t ake time, too, but at least sting it very delicately from taki of care not to scratc eventually removing most of torn and splintered uck immovably to the pane of clear, hard varnish.

        S er. Did ten if it got ? No, said er in t, it    like t in a stone bo looked and smelled to Mary like an acid.

        t    all, rigued by    and o sely onto telling    by grinding and dissolving and distilling a mineral t t yet visited. Gradually tened and came free, and Mary     of clear bro the size of a page from a paperback book.

        Sop, until bot and smoot mirror.

        And w...

        Noticular. It ly clear, but it s one quite close to t and about fifteen degrees upward.

        S op of ther.

        So sook tried to score a line across t so s it in tone, so score a line deep enougo risk snapping t. Sider tting glass, and it worked: now swo ss.

        S togetograper it emply different cast to t t there was no sign of Shadows.

        S, c a , a curious ts normal color, but brighter and more vivid.

        At t point Atal came along to see w she was doing.

        you see sraf now? she said.

        No, but I    see otried to show her.

        Atal erested, but politely, not    ing Mary, and presently tired of looking ttled doo maintai of pure sociability, and once or tal ed Mary to attend to ural tidy    trunk lifted it a fall, stroking and massaging her scalp.

        S Atal ed t do surface smooteflon t rested on tral urours matcly, of course, and as Mary raure: it ure,    itself together again.

        Atal aarry a zalif from outside; but tact    easy, and sometimes Mary t t Atal    ure. So s begrudge time s o    t and grime t accumulated t oil gently over als trunk lifted and straightened her hair.

        al    o urned back to    at once she made her discovery.

        Ses a    so t t clear, brig something had happened.

        As sal. t of t t point souc h her oily fingers.

        Atal, she called. Quick! e back!

        Atal turned and wheeled back.

        Let me take a little oil, Mary said, just enougo put on the lacquer.

        Atal    ced one of t substance.

        tes togeto spread t once more.

        And ograms . Everyal : sparkles of liging and drifting and sometimes moving in a current of purpose. Among it all rees; but . It didnt obscure t made them clearer.

        I didnt kno iful, Mary said to Atal.

        is,    is strao t you could. Look at ttle one...

        Sed one of ter grassopping to examine a leaf, falling over, scrambling up again to rusell racted again by a piece of stick, trying to pick it up, finding ants on runk and ing ation. ters, ts, tro by mulike t tle ss of iion t eddied and broke off and drifted about, to disappear as new ones were born.

        Around ronger, and ts ttled and poone, making tis or tortillas, c time; and t, t baty and wise care.

        So at last you    see, said Atal. ell, no e h me.

        Mary looked at . Atal’s te: it    ge.

        And ot of ters, from along t strangers, too, mulefa eady.

        I go? Mary said. hey all ing here?

        Dont al, e     you.

        It seemed to ing, for to go and o expect. t t    least, Mary estimated, o. tting sun spread its o oil, part warm fles horselike smell.

        Atal urged ohe mound.

        Mary said,    is ell me!

        No, no... Not me. Sattamax will speak...

        Mary didnt knotamax, and tal indicated rao    trunk ter of ole a gla Mary    respect, even ttle of    meant.

        tamax o speak, t of t. Mary stood close to tal nearby for reassurance; but s as if s school.

        Sattamax began to speak. ones ricures of runk low and graceful.

        e ogeto greet tranger Mary. to be grateful for ivities since sed until s especially tal, tranger Mary oand us.

        But to uand, and t , but s see it as il srument to look through.

        And no o help us.

        Mary, e here and join me.

        S dizzy, self-scious, bemused, but so and stepped up beside t ster speak, so she began:

        You able. I came from a    some of us are aeful for your . If to do it.

        Sal, and s made her meaning

        clear. It ure as    to uand.

        Sattamax said, It is good to o , I ot see ualapi    of ty-t taken care of trees prospered, tualapi came, our numbers and tant.

        But trees began to si. e ded till    of season, and some    find a cause for this.

        to be sure, t so is t kno until you came. e terflies and birds, but trange as you seem; but you are s and immediate, like birds, like butterflies. You realize to antly, out of terials ogetrument to do so. Beside us, you t    is    seems, w our ro you.

        But t fact is our    , you    see es and possibilities and alternatives t are invisible to us, just as sraf o you. And o survive, ly to trees siess and find a cure; ualapi, who are so numerous and so powerful.

        And we hope you    do so soon, or we shall all die.

        t and approval from t Mary, and s more t a scations of    a strange flattery: t and darting and birdlike , because s of    along    came t t it terribly ; t uand at all; s possibly fulfill te heirs.

        But equally, s. ting.

        Sattamax, s your trust in me and I s. You iful and I ry very o    it is t I am doing. trusting me.

        troked runks as sepped down. Sed by w so do.

        At t very moment in ttagazze, t Fatra taied trunks of olive trees. t slas and cicadas.

        Atle farmered among vines, ed and a spring trickled dotending to some task beside t toool and a bucket.

        In told    t salked of going up into tains; per least t be co buy, and sprio drink. Fate used to living frugally, and ty of time.
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