Fig of mucual. For a bear to kill anot    , ill.

        But occasionally tances in e , a whole ceremonial rescribed.

        As soon as lofur annou lorek Byrnison ake place, t ground    and smooto c ested, and tes    as mution o e six-inco a deadly point. Lyra ac be tention; y-four    rest or food;            one point, after lofur Raknisoed ts skin open like paper, and t o lofur and go ah fear.

        Even Pantalaimon, o say t er:    told    trust o read) s it wice.

        By time,    ground    stle about t time to    asking questions. Instead sayed close to lofur Raknison and ciers around    tside, and tried to guess tokens to -ranking, stle manikins like lofurs rag-doll daemon, trying to curry favor, perating to notice t o do    of favor now? hey behave?

        { Because t , so see.

        t sure    like lorek Byrnison, pure aain and absolute; tant pall of uainty cched lofur.

        And tcy. Sly close to lofur and said not her.

        ted by time, and t, ting of darkoime Lyra t lorek o arrive. As sood stle rise of dense-packed sno t ground, so lig to see a flig black so bear o see ty, ; or to see Ma Costas broad arms, to smell t enfolded you in her presence....

        Sears t froze almost as soon as to brusened. Bears,    uand    fort     firmly around tle mouse-form, and    her fingers.

        Beside ments to lofur Raknisons armor.    metal toes inlaid    enclosed t of ening carapace of silver-gray, s; aed by a close-fitting sark of c    srayed lorek Byrnison, for lorek . ected only    lofur Raknison, so sleek and po a deep siess in    and fear bined.

        Sy, if you remember o you before...”

        turned y racted from target t for o slas    claws.

        “Yes? Yes?”

        “Remember, I said Id better go and speak to lorek Byrnison first, and pretend—”

        But before sec it meant and took it up riump excitement. they had seen lorek.

        “Please?” Lyra said urgently. “Ill fool him, youll see.”

        “Yes. Yes. Go now. Go and ence him!”

        lofur Rakniso.

        Lyra left    ground, bare and clear as it le footprints io let    bodies lumbered aside, t.    tc ill he snow.

        al, and in a flurry of snoood beside her.

        “Oerrible to o fig ready— youre tired and hungry, and your armors—”

        “ terrible thing?”

        “I told    oo be like a person and    desperate. So I tricked o t I o desert you and be ead, but o figo make it    you figo just burn you up before you got close—”

        “You tricked lofur Raknison?”

        “Yes. I made     you instead of just killing you straigcast, and to do t, because—”

        “Belacqua? No. You are Lyra Silvertongue,” o fig.

        e, little daemon.”

        S lorek Byrnison in tered armor, lean and ferocious, a as if     h pride.

        togeto ground lay flat and open at t of tered at ttlements, ood like a dense y we as of eyes and noses.

        t ones moved aside, making them.

        lorek ed across t ground from lofur Raknison. trodden snowo bears faced eac.

        Lyra o lorek t srembling in    dynamo, geing migouc t and said, “Fig. hing.”

        tood back.

        “Bears!” lorek Byrnison roared. Aled birds out of ts.    on: “terms of t are te. If I kill lofur Raknison, I s order to you all o tear do palace, t perfumed insel, and o tal. Gold is not.

        lofur Raknison ed Svalbard. I o se it. lofur Raknison, I challenge you.”

        tep or two, as if he could hardly hold himself back.

        “Bears!” urn. “lorek Byrnison    my invitation.

        I dreo make terms of t, and torn apart and scattered to ts. erated. It sal crime to speak his name....”

        inued, and t ual fait tterly different: lofur so glossy and po y aed. But    and it fitted    tent ed anotless will.

        And s all too. But lorek and lofur    tures, tinies. lofur o take tion, and lorek ake t, oure o unfold.

        As tual bat moved too prolessly on t a flicker of movement from tators: but all eyes follohem.

        Finally till and silent, co face across t ground.

        t t. Like t masses of rock balanced on adjoining peaks and sainsides gatrees into splinters, until to eac boto po oget resounded in till air a destroyed, as rock o rise ed up in a lit easily raise    once for t e fur, and t and wrenc forward.

        Sensing t ters edge, sending ss of er flying o the air.

        And lorek fell aial lofur stood up tall, straigeel of es by srengtill trying to rise.

        Lyra felt    of    crashing fall.

        Certainly t? ruggling to t     , and lofur eet.

        Drops of    blood o it like a token of love.

        to t came a to scramble upright again.

        For a moment tood apart, getting t ce it    oo a    ill faste ttom, and trailed around    ing heavily.

        But    lofur before ta of lofurs neck, . lofur t eas of sno sprayed in all dires and sometimes made it o see wage.

        Lyra co breatogetig . S searing at a    t couldnt be rig later, after anotanding uprigy cla lofurs face, ting back just as savagely.

        Lyra trembled at t of t were swinging a sledge eel spikes...

        Iron ged on iroeet trodden doo a crimson mud.

        lofurs armor iful state by time, tes torn and distorted, torn out or smeared t googetter dition, for all its ugliness:

        dented, but intact, standing up far better to t sledgeurning aside tal six-inch claws.

        But against t, lofur ro more blood.    to    w could she do?

        And it    it .    to strike    oo, almost little pats pared y cruss es before.
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