m Lyra    no was.

        t long risen, and t ttle tc s in, Marys ening. tside, and some kind of cricket, and Mary ly in her sleep nearby.

        Lyra sat up and found    for a moment, and t of Marys, a lengt, ligterned clot sie into a skirt. S t, but at least det.

        S t. Pantalaimo ill ected some talking, just telling eag...

        ill ill asleep uer tree, t of    it e different o t.

        So s doo ter alone in t tall, slender bird like a anding perfectly still on one leg.

        Sly and slo to disturb it, but took no more notice of er.

        "ell," she said.

        S to t er ing in on tide, and it rao Lyra, er before. So keep    and    er? Or a beetle, creeping into to tickle irely    on    all? ""

        t again and, seeing some flat stones by t to fetco    bush, nearly dry.

        ill irring. S nearby and called ly.

        "ill! ake up!"

        ";    once, and sat up, reache knife.

        "Safe," s;And too, or Dr. Malone did. Ill get yours. t;

        Sain of leaves and sat o ill he was dressed.

        "I s; s;I    to look for Pan, but I t;

        "ts a good idea. I mean a s years and years of dirt on me... Ill go down and was;

        looking too closely at anyteness, but curious about everyte ne in muc of c tel le patterns, but patterns t    carved in t o gro surally.

        ter. Part of o puzzle it all out, to step ligy to similarity, from one meaning to anotrument; but anot ay o move on.

        ell, Im not going anywill Pan es back, so herself.

        Presently ill came up from t of ; and soon Atal came along, too, and to life around t o stare, and Lyra urn and look at tly to make terror.

        "ell, no; Mary said    and drunk a scalding infusion of somet. "Yesterday you oo tired and all you could do . But you look a lot more lively today, boto tell ead itll take us a good long time, and s."

        tiff tarry ing to t out on the grass, and Mary

        so knot a ne ualapi, te birds, gat at sea, and everyone o leave at once; but ime.

        So t old ory, from t so long ag Room at Jordan College.

        tide came in and turned, and still tualapi. Iernoon Mary took ill and Lyra along t ts ied, and t marso o go tide , because te birds only came inland    and perfectly maintained, more like a part of nature t.

        "Did tone roads?" ill said.

        "No. I t; Mary said. "I mean t beey of    surfaces to use t voloes.

        "So t possible for to use togetrees t vertebrates, t     t creatures    a bit easier, so all kinds of otral spine. In t aes, to be sure, but not many. tary not to    them.

        "Anyrees ing toget possible. A lot of little coget of tory begin, ill?"

        "Lots of little coo,"    urees. If y seds earlier or later, , agazze and Lyra; none of this would have happened.

        arted from tened as time ts,    aintop.

        "And tc;

        ood t.    sold him before she killed herself: she had loved John Parry, and he had sed her.

        "itc; Lyra said.

        "But if s;

        "ell," said Mary, "love is ferocious, too."

        "But ; said ill. "And I    tell    ;

        Lyra, looking at ill, t t if .

        All around t noises of ternoon rig sug of ts, tide , so tent of tening u sun. A billion tiny mud creatures lived and ate and died in top layer of sand, and ttle casts and breats s th life.

        it telling t to tant sea, sing te sails. But tter ook up t sparkle the shimmering air.

        So gaticular kind of mollusk by finding tubes just above t it hem.

        o ted as many as s .

        Seo t part of tory. Steadily trusively back to tide urning.

        tory aking a long time; t get to t day. As telling Mary icularly ied in t nature of human beings.

        "You kno; s;t I used to belong to,    use t St. Paul talks about spirit and soul and body. So ts in ure isnt se."

        "But t part is t; ill said. "ts    angels t uand     of ecstasy for to he dead...”

        "tell it o it," said Lyra, and s    kno    fused.     trust than shed ever seen on a human face.

        By time to prepare. So Mary left t to cide flooding in, and    to join Atal by t.

        But Mary, sualapi destroyed a village furt, and t before. ttae and to sea. And anotree fell today ...

        No! here!

        Atal mentioned a grove not far from a    spring. Mary ook t t stream of sicles rongly, and at inparably greater speed and volume, tide nohe riverbanks.

        you do? said Atal.

        Mary felt t of responsibility like a ly.

        tell tories, she said.

        al sat s outside Marys ars. table in ted nigeo Mary tell ory.

        S before s met Lyra, telling t t tter Researcime so spend asking for money, and tle time t for research!

        But Lyras ing ter of days s ogether.

        "I did as you told me," s;I made a program, ts a set of instrus, to let talk to me ter. told me o do. t;

        "If you ist," said ill, "I dont suppose t o say. You mig ;

        "A I ko be a nun, you see. I t po till I sa any God at all and t peresting anyian

        religion is a very poake, ts all."

        "op being a nun?" said Lyra.

        "I remember it exactly," Mary said, "even to time of day. Because I    p me keep up my uy career, you see, and I finisorate and I o teae of t you a,    even ;    o dress soberly and o uy to teaco particle physics.

        "And t and to e and read a paper. t, Id never been out of England. t, tel, t sunligo speak, and t of my oo listen and o get t... Oement, I t tell you.

        "And I , you o remember t. Id been suctle girl, Id goo Mass regularly, Id t I ion for tual life. I ed tod . I ed to take my ; soget;and place it in front of Jesus to do as oo muc lasted until, o nine on t tent;

        Lyra sat up and ening closely.

        "It er Id given my paper," Mary    on, "and it ening, and Id dealt ions    making a mess of it, and altogetoo, no doubt.

        "Anyo a restaurant a little , and to go. Normally Id    time I t, ell, Im a groed a paper on an important subjed it    alk    all t ied in, and    Id loosen up a bit. I    liked taste of    of musi t.

        "So    doo eat in t table under a lemon tree, and t of bo to me alking to tting opposite    knoo; alian, and    people alking about, and I t it eresting to    it.

        "Anyle older t black iful olive-colored skin and dark, dark eyes.    falling across    pus back like t, slo;

        S s very well.

        " ; s on. " a ladies man or a c o talk to        to sit tern ligree    of talk and laug    I ty. Sister Mary Malone, flirting!    about my vo dedig my life to Jesus and all t?

        "ell, I dont kno ree, or    it gradually seemed to me t Id made myself believe somet    true. Id made myself believe t I     it eresting, and some people    t I never    ever going to C it    matter, because

        t of to visit.

        "And t of some s stuff and I suddenly realized I o Co speak. And Id fotten it. It aste of t stuff t broug back, I t    almond paste," so Lyra, who was looking fused.

        Lyra said, "A; aled bafortably to    .

        "Any; Mary    on. "I remembered taste, and all at once I asting it for t time as a young girl.

        "I    a party at ty, and ts ;Usually girls daogetoo so ask t t kno, and by t time alking... And you kno is    once;    on talking and took a bit of marzipan and    gently put it in my m to smile, and blus for t, for tle way ouc;

        As Mary said t, Lyra felt se o    as if so a great    kno    ots ing on. S trembling as Mary    on:

        "And I t    t party, or it mig anot ime. It    and trees, and I    too so move. Almost. But one of us did and t any interval bet um leap, suddenly,    aradise.

        "e sas moved aime, so s... But t . I o C;

        It raly s rooms lit stood ing, quiet, expet.

        "And at    nine in t t restaurant table in Pal," Mary tinued, "someone gave me a piearzipan and it all came back. And I t: am I really going to spend t of my life    ever feeling t again? I t: I    to go to Cs full of treasures and strangeness and mystery and joy. I t, ill anyoter off if I go tel and say my prayers and fess to t and promise o fall into temptation again? ill anyoer for making me miserable?

        "And to fret, no oo n, no oo bless me for being a good girl, no oo punisy. I didnt kno free and lonely and I didnt kne     as I . A taste, a memory, a landslide...

        " and looked at table, I could tell    tell    ill toe and private almost for me. But later on    for a    breeze kept stirring my , and tlantic le quiet ...

        "And I took t in t . All one.

        "So t ; she said.

        "as t man t found out about t; Lyra said after a moment.

        "Oer. No, t tale. ."

        "Did you kiss ;

        "ell," said Mary, smiling, "yes, but not t;

        "as it o leave t; said ill.

        "In one    ed. Everyone, from to ts to my parents, t and reproac as if sometely believed in depended on me carrying on .

        "But in anot    made sense. For t time ever I felt I ure and not only a part of it. So it    used to it."

        "Did you marry ; said Lyra.

        "No. I didnt marry anyone. I lived    Alfredo, someone else. I lived    t living togeto like mountain climbing, and augo climb, and I ains and... And Ive got my     I mean."

        " ; said Lyra. "At ty?"

        "tim."

        " did ;

        "Os all I remember."

        " sa; Lyra said, "you said one of tist    you    o t good and evil. Did you t t;

        " I kneaugo to t otogeto t t all."

        "But do you no; said ill.

        "I to," Mary said, trying to e.

        "opped believing in God,"    on, "did you stop believing in good and evil?"

        "No. But I stopped believing t side us. And I came to believe t good and evil are names for    for    t s an evil one, because it s too plicated to ;

        "Yes," said Lyra firmly.

        "Did you miss God?" asked ill.

        "Yes," Mary said, "terribly. And I still do. And    is ted to to feel I ed to God like t, and because ed to tion. But if    t;

        Far out on tones. Embers settled in tirring faintly    breeze. Atal seemed to be dozing like a cat,    oion o tars.

        As for Lyra, s moved a muscle si straion inside    kno    meant, or w had e

        from; so s ried to stop rembling. Soon, s, soon Ill know.

        Mary ired; s of stories. No doubt somorrow.
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