As tco heal ills wound.

        to lay t caugter of starlight.

        Lyra sat nearby stirring some    of boiling er over a fire, and ed and cried in rone:

        "Little kore your iron out of Motrails, built afire and boiled t empered it, plunging it in icy er, ing it iill your blade was blood-red, scorg!

        ter once again, a again, till team er cried for mercy.

        And y t you le one.

        "But little knife, w have you done?

        Unlocked blood-gates, left them wide!

        Little knife, your motrails of t mines and caverns, from    iron womb.

        Listen!"

        And Serafina stamped again and clapped ake a ion t tore at ted in t a c the core of his spine.

        turo ill ook ime, tering        moving, ahe spell goon.

        "Blood! Obey me! turn around, be a lake and not a river.

        op! And build a clotted    firm to he flood back.

        Blood, your sky is tay t;

        ill t oms of o o listen and obey.

        S uro ttle iron pot over tter steam , and ill he liquid bubbling fiercely.

        Serafina sang:

        "Oak bark, spider silk, ground moss, saltig, close up, bar te, stiffen t;

        tcook    an alder sapling along its eaming liquid into t, t toget to tip. And the sapling was whole again.

        ill uro see anling ouging,    tcs fs and s    straigs heaving belly upward.

        Serafinas knife s across it. ill felt raining Pantalaimon, ill, eyes bulging, breast rails glistening.

        But Serafina took some more of tion and trickled it into t fur over it until t all.

        tc it gently to t sself, turo lick its flank, flicked its ears, and nibbled a blade of grass as if it ely alone. Suddenly it seemed to bee ad like an arro s ao the dark.

        Lyra, sootalaimon, gla ill and sa    it meant: t eaming mixture on tumps of imes, but    flinch.

        Once co tied tigrip of silk. And t ; the spell was done.

        ill slept deeply t of t. It    tc ried to see from    was    her face was calm and impassive.

        Oen, Serafina told t tce to to find Lyra and be    sask to be: namely, to guide ill to her.

        So t off; and it    going for t part. Lyra sulted ter to begin     travel in tion of tant mountains t bay. Never y, t aains    no to ty blue sea and to tains beyond, ion. It seemed a long o go.

        ttle. Lyra    all t, from o squirrels to little green moss snakes o keep going. Lyra and Pantalaimon discussed him endlessly.

        "e could look at ter," Pantalaimon said at one point o a bro sa;e never promised not to. And    all kinds of t for    for us."

        "Doupid," Lyra said. "It    for, cause    greedy and nosy, Pan."

        "t makes a ally you    to d room at Jordan. I never ed to go in t;

        "If ;

        "No. Cause ter ."

        "Yeaant?"

        "ts    in a moment!"

        And sful. "I mig; s;but Im c;

        "No youre not."

        "You mig be.... op cre you going to be?"

        "A flea, I ;

        "No, but dont you get any feelings about w you mig;

        "No. I dont    to, eit;

        "Youre sulking because I    do ."

        o a pig and grunted and squealed and sill s o a squirrel and darted the branches beside her.

        "; Pantalaimon said. "Dyou t?"

        "Could be. But o be someone important, almost as important as Lord Asriel. Bound to be. e knoant, after all."

        "e dont kno," Pantalaimon pointed out. "e t is, but    kno decided to look for Dust because Roger died."

        "e knos important!" Lyra said ly, and samped . "And so do tches.

        to look for us just to be my guardians and    to ant. You kno is, too, else you    , any believe it ;

        "I did it because     seeing t."

        "I did kno, really," she said.

        topped t up ting on a rock beside talaimon became a flycatc;ill, ;

        "t be folloc go back to drifting about."

        "Yea    to use t e after us for t."

        "Let t , not no    it at first. But if it    kill ters ..."

        "I rusted Angeliot from t; Lyra said virtuously.

        "Yes, you did," he said.

        "Yeaed it in t city."

        "I t it . I couldnt imagine a And all time it ers, and ;

        "ell, I    trust kids again," said Lyra. "I t back at Bolvangar t . t do cruel t. But I ent sure no before, and ts a fact."

        "I ; said ill.

        ";

        "Yea; ed and sat still, and presently    on. "It en sart t    true. And o do t didnt make se to me, any upset and afraid, and so I used to oug t kind of to get better after a    s, because I t take o look after . I old anyone.

        "And once s afraid o    sc out and s ed..."

        ills face    being able to    eady and ering.    on:

        "tormenting    like t to.... t sed to     be surprised. S different and ted     day in sc t eet knoo fig of too, but I got in trouble and I realized I better stop because t—I mean teacies. to my mot me, and t about ake    preteo be sorry and told teac do it again, and ting and I still said not I kept    from t Id do if time.

        Not just    t later s better again. No one knew, ever.

        "But after t I rusted c as keen to do bad t surprised w.

        "But I was glad wc;

        doo Lyra and, still not looking at ended not to see.

        "ill," s; your motullio,    erday t you t ters came from your ;

        "Yes. Because it doesnt make sense,        t ry to     t mad.

        Except t s see.

        And so do t looked crazy; you could of t obviously sing all die leaves, or tullio yesterday toues in t rying to put ters off. If turening beried to get really ied in tones and    toget really important, t kno looks like t. to be frig ters in my    see t got a name for t trying to attack my mots ;

        , and    s sa-laimo very still.

        "o look for your fat; ser a while.

        "A long time ago," old ;I used to pretend ; it used to go on for days. Or else    island and Id sail tly o do about everyt my mot better and er    go to scoo. So I alo myself t ell me t I o take up my fatle. So say t to make me feel good. I didnt k, but it sounded important."

        "Didnt you ;

        "; ;Friends ... to your s and... Sometimes a boy migo    go or I mig, but I could never ask ,"    on. "I    now. I er ;

        " about t; Lyra said,    beating ;;

        "I dont kno ing t my motill sed to kno my fat leave    sure if t. I t at first t of a gang or somet my fat t    moed papers. ted some letters t my fat. to t    go to take my mot knoo do.

        "So in to teacay ook er . Any back to to look for tters, because I ko look and broke into the house again.

        It op of tairs and Moxie—my cat, Moxie—s of t see o ripped    to ttom of tairs....

        "And I ran as all t    mean to kill    I dont care if I did. I ran a to Oxford and t    only    and stopped to c. If I    seen    e out of t;

        "Yea; said Lyra, "t    no room at Jordan aer put poison in t;

        Bot silent on t of sunlig iny c to t    ired and lost toil . And in anotalaimon    to stay in tiring room, and anoto play    Lyra forever on ther unging Oxford.

        Presently ill rong enougo go on, and toget forest quiet around them.

        traveled on ting, moving, resting again, as trees greer: Keep going, it said; t dire. At noon to a village untroubled by Specters. Goats pastured on trees cast sony ground, and cream called out and ran for t t of tattered clote-faced, fierce-eyed boy in tained s, and t grey hem.

        t o sell some bread and c for one of Lyras gold s. tc out of tened. After anotskin and a fine linen s, and ill renounced -s ream and lying to dry in t sun afterward.

        Refreso rest in t under rees, and t    tou rims and ttle valley open beloo go no farther.

        ting more man once, and to ss of dream. tians, quefoil.

        ill drank deeply in tream and t stay arangeness hrobbing.
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