Meanwhile, all around her the tantalizing work of assembling the expedition was going on day and night. What's that hourglass mean, Farder Coram? she asked, over the alethiometer, one sunny morning in his boat. If you want to see the North, you'll have to wait till all this trouble's over. "I know your heart was set on going north, but it's my belief not even Mrs. The door shut behind her with a decisive click. Pantalaimon hissed quietly, but John Faa's daemon took off from the back of his chair and flew at them with black wings, not threateningly, but like a reminder of good manners and Lyra turned on her heel as the crow glided over her head and wheeled back to John Faa. There may be others, but that's the one I've seen. I bet there's one in Bodley's Library in Oxford, she said. It would be a fine thing to hide in a lifeboat and wake up on the way to High Brazil. Over the next few days, Lyra concocted a dozen plans and dismissed them impatiently for they all boiled down to stowing away, and how could you stow away on a narrowboat? To be sure, the real voyage would involve a proper ship, and she knew enough stories to expect all kinds of hiding places on a full-sized vessel: the lifeboats, the hold, the bilges, whatever they were but she'd have to get to the ship first, and leaving the fens meant traveling the gyptian way.Īnd even if she got to the coast on her own, she might stow away on the wrong ship. So you oughter take me, Lord Faa, excuse me for interrupting your talk." And like that woman said, you might need women to play a part-well, you might need kids too. You'd be sorry if you got up there and then found you needed me and found you'd left me behind. I can do navigation and I can take anbaromagnetic readings off the Aurora, and I know what parts of a bear you can eat, and all kind of useful things. And before that, even, I meant to rescue my friend Roger the kitchen boy from Jordan who was took. That's what I set out to do when I run away from Mrs. "I want to come and help rescue the kids. I want to come north, Lyra said so they could all hear it.
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He might have been ill, or he might have suffered a crippling blow, but the result was thatīut I'm learning how to read the alethiometer, too.
Sophonax was as sleek and healthy and beautiful as Farder Coram was ravaged and weak.
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