Lyra and ill ea. tialys and Salmakia tending to tside, flies cut from spiderer in a tin plate.    Pantalaimon, mouse-formed,     t to    outside.

        "You    still decide differently," said Salmakia.

        "No, . e decided already," said Lyra, stubborn and fearful at once.

        "And if    e back?"

        "You dont o e," Lyra pointed out.

        "ere not going to abandon you."

        "t if you dont e back?"

        "e sant."

        Lyra . S really looked at t s of tanding on table just an arms lengt beautiful, not pretty, but t of face you o see if you ing out t. But s no if ever t y and     a o o lull and sooto, one day, in a voice like t.

        "ell," Lyra said, and found    choked, so she swallowed and shrugged.

        "ell see," said turned back.

        Oeea, s, took t off ty toely a little    to e closer, t looking back to see if they were following.

        t. It , and reamers of to t t all toget o c colors flash.

        Before long ttlement and made tream t ture toad as big as ills fo to move out of t t ko    it.

        "It o kill it," said tialys. "; said Lyra. "It migill like being alive, in spite of everyt;

        "If , aking it ; said ill. "It s to stay agnant pool migter t;

        "But if its in pain?" said tialys.

        "If it could tell us,    si t, Im not going to kill it. t oads."

        tsteps made told t t alaimon    eyes o Lyras so ill rembling and trembling.

        Suddenly ttle    , but it urned o talaimo into Lyras breast as sogetreading carefully along th.

        And t ter lay still in front of the pebbles.

        turo t, and a little    t, a ty stood crazily out over ter. t; tty began, and    began. Lyras deato epped into t to do .

        "Listen," said ill.

        titive sound out on ter: a creak of , regular splas     and moved foro tting planks. Lyra follos, looking like ood at tty, pressing t t, and o brus settled on t sloting closer and closer.

        "Dos go!" Pantalaimon whispered.

        "Got to," Lyra whispered back.

        S ill.     turn aside. And tialys on ills sc, like e to time t to clear t make t. She dead.

        t.

        It    ro, battered, patg; and t , ly around t, pale eyes sunk deep among folds and wrinkles of gray skin.

        go of an oar and reaco t in t at tty. it t rig the planks.

        to speak. ill got in first, and to step dooo.

        But tman held up his hand.

        "Not ; he said in a harsh whisper.

        "Not w;

        "Not ;

        ended a yelloing directly at Pantalaimon,    form immediately became ermine we.

        "But ; Lyra said.

        "If you e,    stay."

        "But ! ed die!"

        "Isnt t ?"

        And t time Lyra truly realized rembling, and clutcig he whimpered in pain.

        "t; said Lyra opped: it    fair to point out t t o give anything up.

        ill c t tty, at tagnant puddles, t , against h. Impossible! Never!

        " stay o e," tman said again.

        to land on t, man. Lyra ccir at troom t migh a pardon.

        tmao listen and then shook his head.

        "No," ;If so stay."

        ill said, "ts n o leave part of ourselves be;

        "O you do," said tman. "Its u salk to t s leave. You    knoil you are on ter, and t oo late. But you all o leave t part of yourselves o t;

        No, Lyra t, and Pantalaimon t    go ther again?

        And s ted    of ing ts panion, co t, and so a storm of    ec muffled t all along tcree stumps, tures t lurked ted cry and dretle closer to the ground, afraid of such passion.

        "If e to end    tman shook his head.

        ", but if    stays ; he said.

        "But ;

        "I dont kno;

        ";

        "Leave?"

        &quoing to e back. ere going to to e back."

        "Not t;

        "t ;

        "I aken millions, and none came back."

        "t. ell find our . And since o do t, be kind, boatman, be passionate, let ake ;

        "No,"    ;Its not a rule you    break. Its a la; er, and tilted    ran out again. "t makes ter fall bato ts a la. I t tilt my er fly upake o t s stay."

        Lyra could see notalaimons cat fur. But ill saialys dismount from    at tman, aion; but turned    o say:

        "o t me, it    ake e ruggle and cry, try to bribe me, ten and fig    me, sting as you ter fort take no notie."

        ill could g ing trying to put    claime after time sill ried to g.

        Surn back.

        Snt do it.

        Srue to t-deep, life-deep bond linking o Pantalaimon, s t first, s out of her mind…

        But s.

        "Pan, no ones do; s;but ill says ake care, my dear, youll be safe, e of my life finding you again, I    stop, I    rest, I , o to, Ive got to..."

        And s ter and cold and frighe muddy ground.

        animal ell. o be so young, a cub, a puppy, someten, a creature so sunk in misery t it ure.    Lyras face, and ill could see    look a avoid t, and y and    time as ing. ts of feeli electri.

        And Pantalaimon didnt ask o t, too. And    if    be able to resist; so t so as not to distress tending t it    , it    be long before toget . But ill kle girl earing    out of .

        tepped doo t. S t it barely rocked at all. S beside ill, and    Pantalaimon, rembling at tty; but as tma go of t to pull t atle dog daemon trotted    to tly on t planks, and stood c c drety faded and vanis.

        te t even in t muffled, mist- raised an ec of course it    an ec    of urn from to the dead.

        "My , ill..." so    face torted h pain.

        And t ter of Jordan College o t Lyra    betrayal and it would    erribly, was fulfilled.

        But ill, too, found an agony building ioget as he same anguish.

        Part of it    as if an iron    and    out betried to    in. It    it al, too: somet and private o t o be, and ill ure of pain and s.

        And it . It    kill me, Im frigead; s matter, I dont love ; and as if s, and pretended s so as to spare    as bad as t. to feel.

        So ill kne all t of     bealaimon, on t poisoned and desolate s came to ill and Lyra at t, and tear-filled glance. And for time in t not t, eachers face.

        Only tman and t to t is , so dislodge ture; and t against the slime-puddled floor.

        ted loed to measure. t of alaimon abandoned on t ing tto see w would hey would land.

        ills arm rong around    oo, o peer t gray gloom and to ly somet darken.

        tman pulled on one oar to turn t a little to t.

        "; said tialys, small but strong as ever, to it, as if oo, had been suffering pain.

        "; said tman. "Anotes,    tage."

        " island?" said ill. raioo, so tig hardly seemed his.

        "te to t; said tman. "Everyone es s, c;

        "e s; whispered Lyra fiercely.

        eyes y.

        As ter, dark green, dense, and gloomy. teeply, and trees gre    could slip bet t t Lyra gave a little ; but not no ever again.

        "Are ; ill said to tman.

        "Makes no difference," ;t came ed all t t ake, someone o be dead    not for time t make yourself alive again. And ttle infants, sometimes, t to to t tle g baby on my lap many, many times, t never knehe difference

        betoo, t, snarling and savage and cursing me, railing and screaming:    t I take some noo put t, tion to see I    t trution t going to too, in turn, sooed.

        I let em cry and rave; t    me; t in the end.

        "So if you dont knotle girl so to tradict you.    you are, youll know soon enoug;

        All time eadily ro ao    for t    t rose out of the lake.

        alongside t still for t    to get out: as long as s, talaimon o t ure ated, but t out, pale and clutc; so so as well.

        "t; so tman. "ell    of everyto    before, I s;

        "Yes, Ill tell ," said tman.

        rokes faded a.

        ttle ravelers, at t mist, t t a great    of them.

        Lyra s as if urned into lad tter air could flo of alaimon ill, s, Roger must    like t as airying to g to e fingers.

        tood still and listeer from t one or two drops splasheir cheeks.

        "t stay ; said Lyra.

        togeto tic stone blocks, green    slime, rose o t t t, to tell:    ing filaments of a jellyfisouched.

        "t; said ill in a rained voice.

        It tered ern under a slab of stone. Before ill could lift , one of tening them horribly.

        Immediately ted into ttle le. But t fle tal bloled    above tialys and Salmakia gats.

        t bird ture, s of a ures like o mind as soon as he saw her clearly. her face was

        smoot aged beyond even td misery of all of teful expression on ures. But as travelers sated ed as if sed a blood again and again. ted, filto one fiercely;    of putrest stink ed from ime she moved.

        ill and Lyra, botried to stand upright and face her.

        "But you are alive!" them.

        ill found ing and fearing han any human being he had ever known.

        "; said Lyra, w as repelled as ill.

        For ansed a jet of noise rig tc Lyra and togeturned into y of c teaculate to appeal to, nowo hide.

        and looked he sheer power of her scream had made him dizzy.

        "If youre trying to stop us," ;tter be ready to fig door."

        t time it o purse o a mock kiss.

        t;Your motmares. e s ;

        ill didnt move, because out of tely along tialys on t at to dig o tures scaly leg, and tialys launc off tly onto tric blue steed and up into the air.

        t on te. Anottered t    ill and Lyra bot taggered. But so tone ood out from    of serpents.

        ill tugged at Lyras ried to run to t turing Lyra behe knife.

        t once, darting close at ing ao get in a blo distrag    s o the ground.

        Lyra called out, "tialys! Salmakia! Stop, stop!"

        tering in t one , and flexing , and t was w Lyra iced.

        too land on. Salmakia realized o tialys: "S. e t    ;

        Lyra said, "Lady, ;

        travelers nearly fainted from tion and decay t ed from her.

        "No-Name!" she cried.

        " do you    ; said Lyra.

        "    you give me?"

        "e could tell you ed, I dont kne t;

        "Oo tell me a story?"

        "If youd like."

        "Maybe I ;

        "You mig us go in t door and find t weve e o look for; I ;

        "try, t; said No-Name.

        And even in    t s bee trumps.

        "O;    before, sting and improving and adding: parents dead; family treasure; shipwreck; escape ...

        "ell," stling into orytelling frame of mind, "it began ay, oime. ting in our forest. t     ;

        it even a cry of    Lyra, clastretc ime to duck, but still one of t ore out a clump of hair.

        "Liar! Liar!" t;Liar!"

        Sly for Lyras face; but ill took out t of rea time, and ill led Lyra over to t tred:

        "Liar! Liar! Liar!"

        And it sounded as if     so be screaming Lyras name, so t Lyra and liar hing.

        ill    , o protect        t to tten    out the blade.

        ting dragoumbled to ts as them.
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