| 单词 | Lyra |
| 例句 | “What would you do, if you could?” said Lyra. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Their humans accepted the outcome without resentment, on the whole, so Lyra knew that Annie would do as she asked. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z So he couldn’t express that to Lyra now, though she could see it in his eyes, and that was new for her, too, to be quite so perceptive. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z But before they could all join battle, Ma Costa herself waded in, smacking two of the gyptians aside and confronting Lyra like a prizefighter. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z His dæmon knew what he should do, and said simply, “Lyra.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Will helped Lyra up; the sooner they moved away, the better. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “They …” said Lyra helplessly, then stopped: it wasn’t fair to point out that the other three didn’t have to give anything up. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Knowing exactly what he was doing and exactly what it would mean, he moved his hand from Lyra’s wrist and stroked the red-gold fur of her dæmon. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra slid onto the cushioned bench behind a well-scrubbed pine table top as the low rumble of the gas engine shook the boat. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “Maybe that was why Miss Carmichael was at the priory, to see if they were looking after Lyra properly so she could tell her mother....Blimey.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “No, wait—” said Will, before Sir Charles could speak, but Lyra ran around the desk, and from nowhere Pantalaimon was in her arms, a snarling wildcat baring his teeth and hissing at the old man. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Lyra consulted the alethiometer to begin with, but warily, and learned that they should travel in the direction of the distant mountains they could see across the great bay. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, I see that. I’m sorry, Lyra. You tired now? D’you want to stop?” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The two of them were close enough to touch, Will in his world, she in Cittàgazze, and seeing his trailing bandage, Lyra tapped him on the arm and mimed tying it up again. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Will heard Lyra gasp, and turned to see another witch holding a squirming, struggling hare in her tough hands. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The figure in the padded coal-silk anorak answered in the same language, and Lyra saw his features: he was not a Samoyed or a Tartar. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra chewed some of the seal meat she found in her pocket. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Instead, he called in through the window, “Alice, bring Lyra here.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Then Sister Benedicta picked up Lyra with the utmost care and held her tight. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z They ate greedily, and within a very few minutes Lyra was fully awake and beginning to be warm. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Ahead of them Will was cutting a window, and he and Lyra waited for the women to pass through so that he could close it again. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra was awake and interested, and Pan was buzzing around her head as a bee. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z So said Lyra to Roger, one rainy afternoon when they were alone in the dusty attics. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra was sitting up now, and as she was obviously not badly hurt, the woman turned her attention back to the car. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “What happened? Who killed him?” said Lyra, her voice shaky. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He looked at her carefully, but he was no match for the bland and vacuous docility Lyra could command when she wanted to; and finally he nodded and went back to his newspaper. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Courtesy NASA. shapeType32lineWidth24130shapeType32lineWidth24130shapeType32lineWidth24130A hypothetical ice planet in the system of the Ring Nebula in Lyra. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He switched it on and waved it about to distract Lyra. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Lyra’s Scholar, Dr. Malone, was red-eyed from lack of sleep, and her colleague, who’d just returned from Geneva, was impatient to hear more, and skeptical, and preoccupied. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Coulter, loosening the cramped way some roses had been bunched into a vase, saw that Lyra wasn’t moving and glanced pointedly at the door. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra lay awake, happy enough to gurgle with the swaying of the boat. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “I just don’t know what we got to do,” Lyra sobbed. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra could see why he was saying this: he didn’t want Dr. Lanselius to know of Lyra’s power. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z For the rest of the day, Lyra stayed close to the other girls, watching, saying little, remaining inconspicuous. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z She thought she could see the Specters from time to time, in an oily glistening of the air; and it was Lyra who felt the first shiver of danger. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Will and Lyra got painfully to their feet again and clambered on. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, they cut his daemon away,” said Lyra, knowing how it would affect them. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “Is it the city in the lights?” said Lyra. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “I need to talk to Lyra in private,” said Will. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra explained fearfully about her encounter with little Tony Makarios, and looked over her shoulder at the poor caged daemons, who were clustering forward pressing their pale faces to the glass. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra hitched up her unfamiliar skirt and tied the oilskin pouch around her waist. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z He was quiet for a minute or so, and then he said, “I think Lyra’s braver than me. I think she’s the best friend I ever had.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z No, Lyra thought, and Pantalaimon thought with her: We didn’t go through Bolvangar for this, no; how will we ever find each other again? The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Will looked at each of the bodies in turn, but none of them was Serafina Pekkala, the queen of the witch clan, Lyra’s particular friend. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z She meant, All well with Lyra? but she didn’t really listen to the answer. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z So, realizing this, and remembering something he’d heard Lyra say, Lee asked: “Tell me, gentlemen—do you happen to know if Grumman ever looked into the question of Dust?” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Lyra, can you see that instrument to read it?” he said. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The bear sliced it open with a claw and showed Lyra where to find the kidneys. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z When the sighting rod was set up, Rondon’s loyal right-hand man, Lieutenant João Salustiano Lyra, used a telemeter, an instrument that measured the distance from his canoe to the sighting rod. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Lyra could see his legs, in their dark green trousers and shiny black shoes. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra sat up to greet them, and Will marveled at the way he could instantly tell which dæmon was which, never mind what form they had. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra moved among them offering canapés or smiling sweetly and making pretty answers when they spoke to her. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra gasped and gave a little cry when he was at the windowsill, and he perched there for a second or two before diving down again. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m going to ask,” said Lyra, and turned to leave the lodge. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra just had time to duck, but still one of the claws caught her scalp and tore out a clump of hair. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra was impatient, and said, “But Lord Faa, this ghost—I think it’s the ghost of one of the kids!” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, it’s Chinese. A form of divination—fortune-telling, really....And, yes, they use sticks. It’s only up there for decoration,” she said, as if to reassure Lyra that she didn’t really believe in it. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He listened for Lyra’s babbling but heard nothing. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z As Mary said that, Lyra felt something strange happen to her body. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra sat down carefully, and heard the door close itself. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Lyra knew what Scholars looked like, and neither of these two was a Scholar. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z As soon as Lyra’s head lay on the ground, Pantalaimon moved back around her throat. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The reason for that was Mrs. Coulter’s daemon, the golden monkey, who had filled Pantalaimon with a powerful loathing, and who, Lyra felt, had pried into her secrets, and particularly that of the alethiometer. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Over the jumble of voices Lyra heard someone stumble to the door and out, making incoherent sounds of distress. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The old lady was beginning to frown with curiosity, so Lyra smiled sweetly and moved on. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z On the hawk’s back sat a gray-haired lady, whose clear-eyed face looked first at Lyra, then at Salmakia clinging to her collar. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra guessed they’d discovered the daemons’ escape, and were wondering how it had happened. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra found it was quite easy to pretend to be lighthearted and charming, though she was conscious every second of Pantalaimon’s disgust, and of his hatred for the golden monkey. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The toil was dull and mechanical, but at least he was moving, and at least every step took him closer to Lyra. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z There was no need for her to be so anxious, thought Lyra, but perhaps she wasn’t used to danger. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Everything on this extraordinary day was a new experience for Lyra, but shopping was the most dizzying. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah,” said Lyra, “I always thought he was a thief. And a rogue and all that.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z There was the memory of the little girl Lyra, whom he had named Silvertongue, and whom he had last seen crossing the fragile snow bridge across a crevasse in his own island of Svalbard. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The old lady was sitting by the stove near Lyra’s crib, and she didn’t look at all well. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Mary kissed Lyra warmly and then came forward to welcome Will. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z However, that was a distraction; Lyra was still intent on playing Gobblers, and she inveigled Roger down into the wine cellars, which they entered by means of the Butler’s spare set of keys. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra, stiff and sore, said, “Can you stop? I want to get off and walk.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z There was only one place he was making for, and that was the window behind the bush; so he kept his head low and ran fast, and Lyra and Ama ran behind him. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra was awake before dawn, with Pantalaimon shivering at her breast, and she got up to walk about and warm herself up as the gray light seeped into the sky. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra raised her eyes and had to wipe them with the inside of her wrist, for she was so cold that tears were blurring them. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z He became a mouse and crept away from Lyra’s hand to sniff timidly at the drink in the monkey’s clutch. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The noise of the dogs was deafening, and just as Lyra thought it must have wakened everyone, a door opened and a man came out holding a rifle. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The cliff-ghasts heard Lyra’s exclamation of dismay, and their flat heads all snapped around at once. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra had never seen such a sight, never heard such a bellow; it was like a mountain laughing. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The door had an old-fashioned bell pull, like those in Lyra’s world, and Will didn’t know where to find it till Lyra showed him. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z And as Lyra watched, she felt the same sense, as of trembling on the brink of understanding, that she remembered from the time when she was beginning to read the alethiometer. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Lyra looked at her narrow-eyed, in case she was being sarcastic. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Lyra went and looked, and came back at once, looking pale. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The last communication with those entities she called shadow particles, and Lyra called Dust, had been on the screen of her computer, and at their instruction she had destroyed that. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z But Lyra came running before the witch could answer. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Lyra nodded, and turned the hands before laying the alethiometer in her lap and tucking her hair behind her ears to look down and concentrate. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Lyra learned nothing from that episode except that playing Gobblers led to interesting places. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra shrank back; she didn’t have the strength just yet to face them as she would have liked to do, and it was Will who had to speak first. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra was following this with puzzlement; what the Palmerian Professor said made no sense at all. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z There was nothing to stop Lyra from going in except her own fear. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Suit yourself. Now let me have the stool. I got to feed Lyra.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The goose gave Lyra another of his piercing looks. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z She felt as soft and light in his arms as she had when Lyra was conceived thirteen years before. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z So Roosevelt responded by leading everyone in three cheers for Brazil, and then for Rondon, and Lyra, and the doctor, and finally the camaradas. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Lyra sat up groggily to see Mary talking to five or six of the mulefa, who were surrounding her, clearly excited; but whether they were angry or joyful, she couldn’t tell. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra had no idea what “take him up” meant, but she enjoyed giving her opinion nonetheless. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z If firings had fallen out different, Lyra, you might have been brought up a gyptian, because the nurse begged the court to let her have you; but we gyptians got little standing in the law. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z No-Name swerved out of reach just in time, and Will hustled Lyra over toward the door, because she was numb with shock and half-blinded by the blood running down her face. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z They were the first people he had ever seen in Lyra’s world. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He sat down again with his back to Lyra and, still not looking at her, he wiped his hand across his eyes. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Half a dozen brats turned with expressions of derision, and Lyra threw her cigarette down, recognizing the cue for a fight. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “It’s not like going blind, even,” said Lyra, frightened, “because it’s not that we can’t see things, it’s like the things themselves are fading...” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He and Alice looked intently at the places they passed, because they were both aware, without saying anything about it, of the state Lyra was in. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “He wasn’t really showing it to me,” Lyra admitted. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The problem was how to get Lyra’s hair out of the bomb before they set it off. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra couldn’t remember having to be told that: she just knew it, as instinctively as she felt that nausea was bad and comfort good. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Drops of hot blood were flying through the air: one landed on Lyra’s furs, and she pressed her hand to it like a token of love. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “Yes...just as Lyra did with the alethiometer. Do you mean if I try that?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “You don’t have to come,” Lyra pointed out. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra thought his outline was lost almost at once against the pallor of the snow-covered ground, but it might have been that her eyes were full of tears. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra had to adjust to her new sense of her own story, and that couldn’t be done in a day. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z They found no Gobblers, but the catacombs under the oratory kept Lyra and Roger busy for days. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra moaned and trembled uncontrollably, just as if she had been pulled out of water so cold that her heart had nearly frozen. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “Where are you going, Mr. Jansen?” said Lyra. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z There was no milk and no sugar, but she did find a couple of ginger biscuits in a drawer, and Lyra took one hungrily. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “You got to think about it,” said Lyra severely. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z They got the canopy fixed and sat still, Alice holding Lyra tight and whispering to keep her quiet, Malcolm hardly daring to breathe. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Lyra clumsily collected her story and shook it into order as if she were settling a pack of cards ready for dealing. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra thought this young woman had a nerve, acting as if it were her own laboratory, but she nodded meekly. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He would hate to cry in front of Lyra, because to her he was big and strong, and she would have been frightened to see him frightened, or at least he thought so. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “No,” said Lyra, “I lied. Will doesn’t lie. You didn’t think of that.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z And as he turned down the last little gully before the place where he’d left Lyra sleeping, he stopped suddenly. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Then Lyra listened at the door to make sure no one was coming, jumped up on the locker, pushed up the panel, and hauled herself through. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “Press it in the wounds for me, Lyra. Fold the flesh over it and then hold some snow there till it freezes.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Pantalaimon flew above Lyra’s head for a while until he tired of that, and then he became a little sure-footed mountain sheep, vain of his horns, leaping among rocks while Lyra scrambled laboriously alongside. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, King, you were quite right,” he said, “and I should have listened to you in the first place. She is Lyra’s mother; I might have expected something like that.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Clearly the children were making the most of their freedom, and Lyra hoped they’d keep it up for as long as they could. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “Listen,” he said, “Lyra, listen: what did my father say?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He feared for Lyra’s health, but more he feared for Lanre. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z She took Lyra into the little kitchen and laid her on the draining board while Malcolm nursed the little flames. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Because Lyra was feeling rebellious and uneasy, she didn’t answer this patronizing question with the truth, or with one of her usual flights of fancy. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra was bursting to interrupt, because she knew this process. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Lyra did so, and handed the big black book to her father. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra said, coming closer and whispering herself so as not to alarm him. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra turned one wheel, turned another, turned the whole thing around, and then looked up at Will, stricken. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra took a deep breath and began to turn the wheels. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra scrambled through, but Will stood still and looked into the eyes of his father’s ghost, brilliant in the shadows. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra and Will soon found themselves ignoring them altogether, though Will thought: Those men I killed—their deaths were close beside them all the time—they didn’t know, and I didn’t know... The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The balloon lifted immediately and surged upward into the snow-thick air at a rate Lyra could scarcely believe. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra raised her head and wiped the wet hair from her eyes, and saw something quite different from horses. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z And the Church in recent times, Lyra, it’s been a getting more commanding. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z They waited till most of the grownups were looking the other way, and then Lyra scooped up some snow and rammed it into a loose powdery snowball, and hurled it at random into the crowd. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, that was his downfall. Or part of it. I think Marisa Coulter was involved in some way—perhaps she testified against him—we’ll look up the details. And he’s claiming to be Lyra’s father?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The woman looked at him and cuddled Lyra closer, rocking her back and forth. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Lyra had an impression of bloodstained muzzle and face, small malevolent black eyes, and an immensity of dirty matted yellowish fur. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z And it was about then that Lyra felt the first distant lurch of nausea, pain, and fear that was the unmistakable touch of the Specters. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z She filled an electric kettle, and while she spooned instant coffee into two mugs Lyra stared at the Chinese pattern on the back of the door. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Lyra was afraid of the Steward, who had twice beaten her. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “I should have made time before now for a talk with you, Lyra,” he said after a few moments. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Such an age had gone past since Lyra had seen these dear men! The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He was too faint and dizzy to feel embarrassed, but Lyra became embarrassed for him and went out. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The bears took Lyra up a gully in the cliffs, where the fog lay even more thickly than on the shore. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra suddenly felt her stomach lurch, for Lord Asriel had taken the stopper from the decanter of Tokay, and was pouring a glass. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra’s heart was beating so fast she could hardly breathe. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z It was cold outside, and although she was well wrapped up, Lyra was soon shivering. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Fully awake and on fire with puzzlement, Lyra nodded and slipped her bare feet into the shoes Mrs. Lonsdale put down for her. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z And even in her sickness and pain, Lyra felt that she’d just been dealt the ace of trumps. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “I want to see the Cave,” said Lyra. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She was unhurt, and that was what Lyra had noticed. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Why did the little boy keep calling Lyra s name? The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra had to stop herself crying out, and Pantalaimon fluttered his wings so sharply that the other girls noticed. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Crouching behind the high table, Lyra darted along and through the door into the Retiring Room, where she stood up and looked around. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra watched as her uncle poured a cup of coffee, drained it at once, and poured another before sipping more slowly. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra was in no doubt what he meant “No,” she said in a voice as frail and frightened as she felt. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z He nearly shouted, “Hold tight to Lyra!” but he knew he didn’t need to tell Alice that. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z But it didn’t seem to Lyra that she would ever grow up. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “Look!” cried Lyra, pointing up as another shell burst nearby. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z But before the consul could answer, the door opened and Lyra came in bearing a little branch of pine. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Malcolm passed Lyra to her and poured the milk very carefully into the clean bottle. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z He told her how it had begun, from the three guests peering through the window of the Terrace Room to his glimpse of the little baby Lyra and her fierce dæmon. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Lyra remembered that severed meant “cut” And then something else hit her heart: where was Roger? The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Looking at the alethiometer, Will remembered something Lyra had said about reading it: something about the state of mind she had to be in to make it work. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z When the bottle was ready, Sister Fenella took Lyra in the crook of her arm and settled back to feed her. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “I want to come north,” Lyra said so they could all hear it. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra had left it She felt she was leaving the world altogether, so remote and intent she was, so high they were climbing, so strange and uncanny was the light that bathed than. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Kermit, Lyra, and the camaradas had the remaining five canoes down to a point where they could be dragged over land. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Lyra stood, stubborn and puzzled, waiting for her to recover. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He stumbled through the thick grass with Lyra running ahead to see, and then back to help, and then ahead again, until they reached the stone pavement around the temple. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Lyra turned to Will in despair, but he said, “Tell them the truth. Ask the alethiometer, and tell them what it says.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He watched in anguish as Lyra slid farther and farther, knowing he could do nothing, and knowing he had to watch. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra stood shivering in the fo’c’sle and laughed with delight as her beloved Pantalaimon, sleek and powerful, leaped from the water with half a dozen other swift gray shapes. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Rondon and Lyra were traveling ahead of him and the others, continuing to map the River of Doubt. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Lyra thought of waking him up, but if she was on her own, she could swim in the river. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Holding the beaker in Lyra’s mouth, she tilted it to let a drop moisten the girl’s lips. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He was amazed at how all the force and fire that was Lyra awake could look so gentle and mild when she was sleeping. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra was bursting to ask a question, and the goose daemon knew it and looked at her as if giving permission. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The men seemed to be Scholars; from the way the young woman was questioning them, Lyra took her to be a student of some kind. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z He brought out a bottle of clear and pungent spirit that smelled to Lyra like the gyptians’ jenniver, and the two spies accepted a glass into which they dipped little vessels of their own. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Will and Lyra had returned to the village that afternoon by a different route and hadn’t seen it; the priest lay undisturbed where Balthamos had laid him. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z What she didn’t notice was that the Costas ware alert every second for unusual signs of interest in Lyra from the waterside people. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “I see,” said the man in a tone of satisfaction, as Pantalaimon returned to Lyra’s shoulder. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Alice gasped and put her hand over her mouth, then immediately took it away and held it close to Lyra to stifle any cry from her. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Lyra cried out, and Will had to clutch his chest. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Again Lyra had to wonder what she meant before replying. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z As Lyra watched, one swooped low and loosed an arrow: another man fell. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z On each coffin, Lyra was interested to see, a brass plaque bore a picture of a different being: this one a basilisk, this a serpent, this a monkey. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “I never heard about that!” said Lyra, indignant. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra stirred and murmured, and he stroked her forehead and found it hot, like Alice’s face. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z But Lyra’s coming had changed everything, and so quickly: within a matter of days she’d left her world altogether. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z And around the edge of the tinted mirror there were little pink lights, so that when Lyra looked into it she saw a softly illuminated figure quite unlike the Lyra she knew. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Will set off at once toward the sound, and Lyra followed behind as he plunged down a narrow alley shadowed from the moonlight. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Lyra screamed, and flung herself at the gate into the avenue of lights. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra’s head was in such a whirl of weariness and fear that she could hardly think, but “Yes? Yes?” she said. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra said, “Do the witches want him to make this bridge? Are they on his side or against him?” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Someone was wailing and crying, but it wasn’t Lyra; someone else a long way off was shouting, a woman’s voice, incoherent with rage and helplessness. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z That woke Lyra, of course, and she started bellowing with all the breath in her little lungs. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The two children turned and ran, leaving their stricken brother, and Lyra, frightened and guilty, withdrew inside the room again and shut the window. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Lyra had the impression of a row of beds, children’s faces, a pillow, and then she was asleep. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z As soon as they saw that little group of trees, Lyra and Will both knew that their dæmons were in there, and that if they didn’t reach them soon, they would die. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra protested, as she followed the others reluctantly out of the hall and down the cobbled road toward the jetty. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z So Lyra and her daemon turned away from the world they were born in, and looked toward the sun, and walked into the sky. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra imagined the Chaplain speaking loftily, listening to the star daemons’ remarks, and then nodding judiciously or shaking his head in regret. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The wind that lifted spray off the white-capped waves was monstrously cold, and searched out every gap in Lyra’s wolfskin, and her hands were soon aching and her face numb. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra was terrible and wise, and held a power just as great as his. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z And now that the Gallivespian spies had left to go with Will and Lyra, surely Asriel couldn’t resist an offer like that. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Pantalaimon crept close as Lyra looked down on the poor wasted face. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z He put a finger to his lips and beckoned to Lyra, and led her to the stairs and up to the next floor. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Thorold began, and then saw who it was, and went on: “Not Lyra? Little Lyra? Am I dreaming?” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra was in the open, and the arrows were passing over her head. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The Chevalier Tialys had spoken to Salmakia before skimming ahead, and Will and Lyra watched the dragonfly with eyes greedy for its brightness and vigor as it got smaller and smaller. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z At once Lyra took out the alethiometer and edged nearer to the fire so that she could see the face. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra looked down at her, anguished; but then she stepped over her mother’s body and loosened Mrs. Coulter’s feeble clutch from her ankle. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Will and Lyra took a step toward each other, but there was nothing to fear, for the ghosts were far more afraid of them and were hanging back, unwilling to approach. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Then Lyra took one of those little red fruits. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z She told the story of each one, and Lyra felt her heart stir with admiration for these great, brave, distant heroes. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra saw them flashing overhead and felt a pang of relief that there was still something that darted and glowed with beauty. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra was used to washing with hard yellow soap in a chipped basin, where the water that struggled out of the taps was warm at best, and often flecked with rust. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z When they got there, Audrey was holding Lyra, who seemed comfortable enough, even if a little doubtful, while Alice prepared the milk. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z He gnawed the reindeer haunch, and a wild notion flew into Lyra’s mind as she remembered all those witches in the night sky; but she said nothing about that. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Not to be left out, Lyra yawned as well. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z There was an open gate a little way along, and Lyra could have followed him, but she hung back uneasily. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Down from the dark swooped a raven, and Lyra knew it for a witch daemon. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z She and Lyra would perish by the means she herself had invented. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “Suppose they don’t...But yes, all right,” Lyra whispered back. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Eagerly Lyra took the alethiometer from her and turned the winding wheels. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The President placed the curl of Lyra’s hair in an envelope and shut the locket, looking up and around as he did so, and Lord Roke had to drop out of sight. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra and Will each awoke with a heavy dread: it was like being a condemned prisoner on the morning fixed for the execution. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra cried, to the gyptians who were just there in the blinding snow and who could see nothing. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z He took out all the wet things, the blankets and pillows and Lyra’s sodden clothes, and laid them flat on the planks of the landing. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Lyra had felt something of it earlier, but now she was seeing it directed at someone else, and poor Adèle Starminster had no force to resist. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Before they reached the bench, Lyra was on her feet and speaking to them. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Lyra saw their meanings clearly, and unfocused her mind to explain. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z His dæmon, Lyra thought, would have the form of a tigress, and she shrank back from the anger she imagined the great animal to show. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z She seemed younger than Mary herself, though Lyra had said she was hundreds of years old; the only hint of age came in her expression, which was full of a complicated sadness. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z It was a jaw-cracking, lung-bursting yawn that lasted almost a minute, or felt like it and for all that Lyra struggled, she couldn’t resist the onrush of sleep. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Dame Hannah was sitting opposite the Master in one of the two armchairs beside the fireplace, Lyra on the sofa between them. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z And thus the prophecy that the Master of Jordan College had made to the Librarian, that Lyra would make a great betrayal and it would hurt her terribly, was fulfilled. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra felt her skin crawling, and all the tiny hairs on her arms standing on end, though she couldn’t have said why. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra racked her brains to try and remember exactly what it was the Master had said. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra seized the lanyard at once and put it in her mouth. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Lyra reached the dais and looked back at the open kitchen door, and, seeing no one, stepped up beside the high table. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Almost inaudibly his dæmon murmured, “Further in. Giving Lyra a drink.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z As they came to the top of the rise, they stopped, and Will and Lyra heard the leader say, “Mary close. Mary there.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra spat them out, and when Malcolm laughed at her, she frowned and clamped her mouth shut. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Sister Clara stood there, bland and mild and matter-of-fact, and beside her was a man in a white coat whom Lyra hadn’t seen before. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z He accepted gratefully, and so it was that they came to the gathering ground, where Will and Lyra came to meet them. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra made herself stand and pretend to consider for several seconds before picking out a rag doll with big vacant eyes. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra had to stand on tiptoe to kiss it. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z In the midst of despair Lyra fell across Lanre’s body and wept his name. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Lyra watched helpless nearby, nursing Pan, rocking him against her breast. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He unbuckled the sheath and laid it on the rock, and then he and Lyra walked away and sat where they could see the Gallivespians. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The light was very dim, but when he peered down close and looked at the child’s face, he knew beyond any doubt that this was the Lyra he loved. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z He wanted to get rid of Lyra so that he could talk more privately with the young woman; Lyra could tell that easily. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Mary thought: Lyra talked to her dæmon, didn’t she? The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra lay hot and almost as restless, but deep, deep asleep, locked into oblivion by the draught her mother had forced down her only an hour before. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “Lyra, I’m going to give you something, and you must promise to keep it private. Will you swear to that?” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z They spoke too softly for Lyra to hear, but she enjoyed watching them sip dewdrops from the marram grass to refresh themselves. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The chief saw Mrs. Coulter struggling, and picked up Lyra with one hand as if she were a doll and threw her into the sledge, where she lay stunned and dazed. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra had sensed that something was wrong, and she jumped up from her close conversation with Roger’s ghost to hurry to Will’s side. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The movement was bumpy, but not uncomfortable, because the creatures had no spine; Will and Lyra felt that they were sitting on chairs with a well-sprung seat. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z All the sisters would be in the oratory for the final service of the day, except for Sister Fenella, he supposed, and Sister Katarina, if she was looking after Lyra. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z It gave Lyra time to dart out, slam the door shut behind her, and run full tilt for the stairs. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Pantalaimon darted ahead, and Lyra gasped and called to him breathlessly, making him pause. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z At once the hawk screamed three times, so loud that Lyra’s head rang. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Then rumors began to spread: Lyra was ill. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z It was dark now, and Lyra watched through the window as the lights of Colby came closer. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra could see his dark eyes searching among the Scholars as they peered up at the slide of the Aurora, and the green glow of his daemon’s eyes beside him. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z There was a fire in an iron range, and Lyra sat freshly changed in the center of a large pine table. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The sun of that world was shining into this, making Lyra’s hands golden, melting the ice on Roger’s wolfskin hood, making his pale cheeks transparent, glistening in his open sightless eyes. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The young mulefa children, without wheels, kept peeping around the edges of their houses to stare, and Lyra would suddenly turn and look at them directly to make them jump and laugh with terror. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “And did he live in my world? Or Lyra’s? Or this one?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He crept back to Lyra’s shoulder and whispered, “Drink it.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z They were at dinner by this time, and as Lyra had hoped, sitting next to each other. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z After a moment or two Lyra heard a confused babble break out: cries of horror, loud protests, voices raised in anger and fear. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “Lord Asriel!” he said, and a shiver of cold surprise ran down Lyra’s back. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Through it all Lyra and Pantalaimon darted like fish, making always for the dormitory, and just as they reached it, there was a dull explosion from behind that shook the building. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra heard these tales at first with glee and later with despondency. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “Let go of Lyra’s dæmon first,” said Will. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “No, we can’t. We decided already,” said Lyra, stubborn and fearful at once. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z She had a theory that when he was a butterfly it meant that Lyra was dreaming, but Malcolm was skeptical. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “Who are you?” said Lyra, who was just as repelled as Will. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z She was beginning to stir: Mrs. Coulter had felt her eyelashes flutter when she’d kissed her, and knew she didn’t have long before Lyra woke up altogether. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra watched, hardly daring to breathe, and squeezing her hands together so tight it hurt. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra cried, and hurled herself down the slope at him. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Boy and girl, hand in hand, picked their way over the dead and the wounded, Lyra calling for her dæmon, Will alert in every sense for his. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z With the greatest of care Sister Fenella lifted her up, and Lyra’s rat dæmon leapt onto her tiny shoulder and became a shrew. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The witch called something in return, but again Lyra couldn’t hear it. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra was crouching paralyzed against the wall, but Will still had the knife in his hand. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It sprang upward through his hands, and even over the creak and the buffeting and the howl of wind through the rigging Lyra heard or felt a mighty thump from somewhere far above. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Will had to push against something invisible and then pull Lyra after him, and the Gallivespians could hardly make any headway at all. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z But Will and Lyra had no strength to look back; all they could do was move on after the harpies, and hope. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z And I don’t want it for myself; I want it for Lyra. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z When the sunlight touched her, it lit up more shades of tawny-brown-leaf-hazel-com-gold-autumn-mahogany than Lyra could name. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “Lyra! Lyra!” he said, and shook her gently. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Alice found a door on her side and scooped up Lyra before scrambling out. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Lyra drew her legs up away from Mrs. Coulter, and swung them down to the floor so that she too could run when the time came. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “There’s a rescue party coming,” Lyra told them. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra turned that over in her mind as they drove on. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Malcolm found the handle of the knife and said, “No, I don’t believe that. But why do you want Lyra? What are you going to do with her?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “But you need me,” said Balthamos stiffly, “because I can pretend to be your dæmon, and in Lyra’s world you’d stand out otherwise.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra tore at the brambles with her bare hands, Will slashed and hacked to left and right, as around them the combat of the shadowy beings became more and more savage. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra put some water on to boil, and Will took it up to the bathroom and stripped to wash from head to foot. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The other ghosts followed Roger, and Will and Lyra fell exhausted on the dew-laden grass, every nerve in their bodies blessing the sweetness of the good soil, the night air, the stars. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra ignored completely the Librarian on her other side and spent the whole meal talking to Mrs. Coulter. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “You got to find some other clothes first,” he said to Lyra, “before you go into my Oxford.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z But, being Lyra, she didn’t fret about it for long, for there was the fen town to explore and many gyptian children to amaze. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z In the midst of silence Lyra stood by Lanre’s body and spoke his name. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He walked up the drive, and Lyra followed close behind. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Lyra was waiting on the terrace, with Pantalaimon perched on her shoulder as a sparrow. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well,” Lyra said, and found her throat choked, so she swallowed and shrugged. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra could see why Farder Coram loved her, and why it was breaking his heart, though she had known neither of those things a moment before. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra, her eyes wide with alarm, held up the dragonfly with one hand and felt her hair with the other. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra always heard that harsh voice with a mixture of pleasure and apprehension. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra, feeling raindrops on her face, woke up and protested, but Alice ignored her, pulling the coal silk over the hoops and fastening it as Malcolm instructed her. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z From time to time one of them would glance at Will or Lyra, or at the brilliant dragonfly and its rider, as if they were curious. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z A low hiss of disapproval sounded through the great hall, and Lyra felt the shame he must be feeling, as well as a deep glow of pride in her brave father. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “But even punishing him’s not so important as making sure Lyra’s safe. That’s the most important thing.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Lyra felt Pantalaimon trembling and stroked him with her sore hands. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “If they got hold of us,” said Pantalaimon, meaning him and Lyra, “and got their stings ready to stick in us, Will’d have to do what they said.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Dr. Malone took six wires, each ending in a flat pad, and attached them to various places on Lyra’s head. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Lyra could feel Pantalaimon bristling with anxiety, though he made no sound. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z There was a silence, in which they all three became aware of the witch’s daemon and his fixed stare at Lyra. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra’s captor thrust her forward like a trophy, without letting go, and said something. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “No one’ll notice if we take a look around,” said Lyra. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z She and Lyra were on the riverbank, Lyra to wash, and Mary to look, surreptitiously, for the man’s footprints. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Well, thought Will, if Lyra’s in the cave and Mrs. Coulter doesn’t leave it, I’ll have to go and pay a call. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “I never trusted Angelica, not from the beginning,” Lyra said virtuously. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z And there was another reason for the Costas’ interest in Lyra; but she wasn’t to learn that for a few days yet. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The golden monkey’s eyes never left Lyra’s dæmon, and his little black fingers twitched at the edge of the sleeping bag. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “Yes; I can’t prevent it,” said the Master, and Lyra didn’t notice at the time what an odd thing that was to say. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z She was about the same age as Lyra’s mother, to judge by the look of her in the moonlight, and she wore a little coronet of flowers around her head. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Mrs. Coulter dipped a flannel in a basin of cold water and mopped Lyra’s face, and then unfastened the sleeping bag and washed Lyra’s arms and neck and shoulders, for Lyra was hot. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra obligingly belched, and the woman promptly brought her down on the other side, and the child’s little mouth began to work open and shut even before she found the nipple. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Lyra’s arm was so tight around Pantalaimon that she was trembling with the force of it. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Then he remembered what had happened to Lyra, and sat up with a convulsive shock. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z And she wouldn’t say any more till Lyra had eaten. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “It’s a present for her,” said Malcolm, and thrust it in among Lyra’s blankets. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Even when she was cross with him, she was always patient with Lyra, he thought. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z After two days at sea, Lyra decided that this was the life for her. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra was profoundly curious about she-bears, because she knew so little about them, but this was no time to wander about asking questions. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “I was thinking you could get it clearer than this,” Lyra said. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z His daemon turned her great tawny leopard eyes on her too, and under the concentrated gaze of both of them, Lyra blushed. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z And then for the first time Lyra truly realized what she was doing. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z She seized the flannel and rubbed Lyra’s knees so hard she left the skin bright pink and sore, but clean. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra set his lantern down in the snow and took the half-boy’s hand to guide him to the bear. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra’s tongue sensed it and moved to lick them, and then Mrs. Coulter let a little more of the liquid trickle into Lyra’s mouth, very carefully, letting her swallow each sip before allowing her more. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Little by little Lyra recovered her breath, her balance, and her heartbeat. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Rondon and Lyra looked up from their work and scanned the area. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Lyra marveled at the nerve of the little spy. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “There’s more than one kind of spirit,” said Lyra reprovingly. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Before he left, Sister Fenella took him along to see Lyra. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Then Lyra heard the others sit down again, and go on talking, but more quietly. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “I see it now!” said Lyra, suddenly excited. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “Iorek,” Will said, “this girl is saying she knows where Lyra is. I’ll go with her to look, while you stay here and watch.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “Who d’you think these were when they were alive?” said Lyra. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra crouched low beside a rock, watching for a witch dive. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Malcolm laid Lyra on the table, lined the box with the oilskin, and put the child and blankets inside. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z But he managed to force himself awake enough to take Lyra from Audrey, who was patting her back, and carry her to where Alice was already curling up on the floor. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Lyra heard the screech of nails coming out of damp wood. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The dragonflies’ wings were pearled with mist, like cobwebs, and from time to time they’d beat them quickly to clear them, because the drops must make them heavy, Lyra thought. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra looked around solemnly, and their three dæmons clung together on the thwart. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Now that they’d found Lyra, the angel had begun to withdraw back into his grief: he was silent, distracted, and sullen. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z She wasn’t only hiding Lyra: she was hiding her own eyes. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra was intoxicated; not about the North this time, but about London, and the restaurants and ballrooms, the soirées at embassies or ministries, the intrigues between White Hall and Westminster. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The group, or herd, or gang, was about a dozen strong, and they were moving, as Lyra said, on wheels. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra heard the Master say quietly, “If he forces a vote, we could try to invoke the residence clause. He hasn’t been resident in the College for thirty weeks out of the last fifty-two.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “Better put it back,” said Roger uneasily, and Lyra upturned the skull and dropped the disk back into its immemorial resting place before returning the skull to the shelf. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The giant kissed his right forefinger and touched it to Lyra’s head before handing her back, very delicately, to Malcolm. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Lyra felt it first on her cheeks, and then she saw the grass bending under it, and then she heard it in the hawthorns. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Will and Lyra exchanged a glance to confirm it. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Then she climbed out too, very painfully, shivering and teeth chattering, and reached in for Lyra. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “Not from our world,” she said, “nor from this. Filthy abominations. There are thousands of them, breeding like flies…. Who is this? Is this the child Lyra? And who is the boy?” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z And whenever she was alone, Lyra took out the alethiometer and pored over it like a lover with a picture of the beloved. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z She sat on her cloud-pine branch as if it were a steed, and seemed to rein it in a yard from Lyra’s wondering gaze. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z He had never had to look away from Lyra before. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z It also lit up the guests, and Lyra realized why they weren’t going to dine in Hall: three of the guests were women. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z When the Master had poured some brantwijn for her, Mrs. Coulter said, “So, Lyra, I’m to have an assistant, am I?” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “There’s a light out at sea,” said Lyra. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “None of that nonsense. I’m a Parslow, same as Roger’s father. He’s my second cousin. I bet you didn’t know that, ’cause I bet you never asked, Miss Lyra. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra ducked her head at once under the shelter of her wolverine hood, and shuffled in through the double doors with the other children. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Pantalaimon pulled free of the monkey’s solicitous paws and stumbled to Lyra’s arms. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra lay stiffly, too tired to sleep, too enchanted to question anything. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z He saw how Lanre, nearly mad with grief, had sought the power to bring Lyra back to life again. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The door was opened by the Master’s manservant Cousins, an old enemy of Lyra’s; but both knew that this was a state of truce. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z They rested once more at the head of a rocky valley, because even Will could tell that Lyra was nearly finished: she was limping badly and her face was gray. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra dragged the locker to the corner, jumped up, hauled the furs out of the ceiling, felt for the alethiometer. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra had joined him, and Pantalaimon was snarling as a leopard, paws on the sill, making the first children hesitate. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z A few shot at her, but the arrows fell wideband then Lyra, looking up at the sky, saw the greater part of the witch flight peel off and turn back. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Then a tile broke, and the boy standing on it slipped and fell, but the one beside him picked up the broken piece and hurled it at Lyra. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Get in. Sit down there and take Lyra. Don’t move,” he said, and pulled back enough of the canopy for Alice to see the bow, and where to step and where to sit. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Lyra had stopped crying and found her thumb, and she lay in Malcolm’s tight grasp quite happily, interested in everything. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The scientist took the little envelope containing Lyra’s hair and bowed nervously as he left. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “Witches!” came a cry in a bear voice, and Lyra turned in joy and relief. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Asta became a young cat and jumped into the crib, taking care to avoid touching Lyra, and picked up Pan the kitten dæmon and gave him a little shake. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z It was Lyra’s little canvas rucksack, and from the weight of it he knew without looking that the alethiometer was still inside it. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Lyra had ridden a bear, and Will had ridden a bicycle, but neither had ridden a horse, which was the closest comparison. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Sensing Lyra beside him impatient and angry, Will said quickly, “Excuse me, but Lyra thinks that when she had a lift in your car earlier on, she left something in it by mistake.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It wasn’t Lyra’s way to brood; she was a sanguine and practical child, and besides, she wasn’t imaginative. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z And Pantalaimon didn’t ask why, because he knew; and he didn’t ask whether Lyra loved Roger more than him, because he knew the true answer to that, too. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z That was it; nothing and no one else existed now for Lyra. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z In fact, of course, Lyra and her peers were engaged in deadly warfare. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Will got in first, and then Lyra came forward to step down, too. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Then it was no more strange than talking into a telephone, because he was really talking to Lyra. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z When Alice saw Malcolm, she got to her feet at once and came to his side, Lyra tight in her arms. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Lyra marveled at the effect hope could have. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra howled in protest, but Malcolm had her safe, and caught the bottle too. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z He roared so loudly that the crystal in the chandeliers tinkled, and every bird in the great room shrieked, and Lyra’s ears rang. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “Cry as much as you need to, darling,” said that soft voice, and Lyra determined to stop as soon as she possibly could. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Whatever these two intended, he and Lyra could still get away through the window he’d opened behind the bush on the path below. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z She was holding a candle, and she bent over and spoke quietly, holding Lyra still with her freehand. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “Better be careful to keep mosquitoes and that away from Lyra,” he said. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z And no sooner had he got there than he heard footsteps in that other world, lightly running over the grass, and looked through to see Lyra racing toward him. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Lyra was hungry again, so they bought hamburgers from a cart and ate them as they walked along, something else new to her. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Lyra, darling,” Mrs. Coulter murmured, stroking her hair. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z A guard bear pulled back a massive bolt, and the sergeant suddenly swung his paw at Lyra, knocking her head over heels through the doorway. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra opened the door and found herself in a room lit by one torch, and empty but for a cabinet of mahogany containing some tarnished silver ornaments. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z It was cold, but the witches piled leaves over him, and Lyra slept huddled close behind his back. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Will heard an intake of breath from Lyra behind him as she saw it too. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She dragged the best dress onto Lyra’s skinny frame, tugged it straight, fished a bit of red ribbon out of the tangle in a drawer, and brushed Lyra’s hair with a coarse brush. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra took the toast willingly enough and brought it to her mouth. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Lyra felt herself strengthened by hearing this, and that was really the Lady’s intention. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “You see Lyra behind it, of course,” he said. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Without worrying Lyra, Will loosened the knife in its sheath and kept his hand close to it. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra was drinking in every word like a thirsty flower. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z And we had to learn to see it, Lyra, just as you learned to use the alethiometer. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Serafina Pekkala looked over Lyra’s head to where the Specters were obviously clustering a little way off, and then looked at Will. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Lyra imagined she could see Will’s soul flowing back along the blade to his hand, and up his arm to his heart. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Malcolm gave Lyra to Alice and backed the canoe a few feet, and the giant stuck his trident in the muddy bank and took a deep breath before sinking under the water. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “You don’t even need to read the symbols, Lyra; you can guess as easy as I can.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra’s lips parted and she moaned softly; Pantalaimon moved a little closer to her breast. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He took Lyra while Alice got out, gasping at the shock of the cold. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “A new stone,” he called to Lyra, who knocked the first one aside and placed a second on the spot to heat. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Will and Lyra sensed it, too, and followed their eyes to the sky. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra pushed back her hood to be cooler, but she couldn’t help wrinkling her nose. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z That wasn’t an answer, and whereas Lyra would have pointed that out and asked for more information, she didn’t think Lizzie Brooks would; so she assented dumbly in the dressing and said no more. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra put her hands to her head, and Will nearly stumbled, as if driven downward by the sound. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The death scratched his head and held up his hands, but nothing could stop Lyra’s words, nothing could deflect her desire, not even fear: she’d seen worse than death, she claimed, and she had, too. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Ten years after this evening, and again ten years after that, Lyra would marvel at the coloring of that dæmon’s fur. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z And one of them, the archer who’d saved Lyra from Mrs. Coulter, flew directly alongside the basket, and Lyra saw her clearly for the first time. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z As she said that, Lyra noticed that Mrs. Coulter was alone, without her dæmon. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra turned the hands to the camel, which meant Asia, which meant Tartars; to the cornucopia, for Kamchatka, where there were gold mines; and to the ant, which meant activity, which meant purpose and intention. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Will took the papers the man was holding out, and then held Lyra’s arm and urged her away. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “Mrs. Coulter,” he said, “this is our Lyra. Lyra, come and say hello to Mrs. Coulter.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “It’s like the ones on the coffins,” said Lyra. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z From time to time Lyra thought of Jordan College, but it seemed small and quiet compared to the busy life she led now. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “Sit up, dear, and drink this,” said Mrs. Coulter, and her gentle sum slipped around Lyra’s back and lifted her. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z He was calling his daemon’s name, and calling Lyra; he ran to Lord Asriel and plucked his arm, and Lord Asriel brushed him aside. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z He sat on an upright chair and held out his arms, and Sister Fenella put Lyra very carefully on his lap. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “Yeah, well, they have,” said Lyra, “and it is. And we’re here in the middle of it.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Not the shoulder bag, dear,” said Mrs. Coulter as Lyra came out of her bedroom, glowing with a sense of her own prettiness. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z They circled above, a dozen of them or more, swooping down to shoot and soaring up again, and Lyra swore with every word she knew. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z There lay Lyra, stretched out in the depths of her sleep, right next to Mrs. Coulter. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Alice took two, one for herself and one for Lyra, who after waving it around doubtfully found her mouth and began to suck with immense pleasure. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z It would be easier for the Consistorial Court, because they didn’t have to consider getting Lyra away safely. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z When Rondon arrived, he ordered Kermit to wait there while he and Lyra scouted from the river’s shoreline to determine if the rapids were passable or if a portage would need to be built. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z “We need some medicine!” he shouted, pointing at Lyra, who lolled pale in Alice’s arms. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z She joined him and they went a little apart, talking too quietly for Lyra to hear, though Pantalaimon became an owl and turned his great ears in their direction. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Only the high wailing continued, and then both Will and Lyra saw what it was: a tabby cat, cowering against the wall of the tower, its ear torn and its tail bent. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The dæmons were shocked, and Will, seeing their reaction, understood why: they didn’t know the rest of the truth; they didn’t know what Will and Lyra themselves had learned. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “Maybe he wants to take Lyra because he really is her father.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Less than five minutes after they’d swallowed the last of the drink, both Will and Lyra were fast asleep. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “And that’s a task that includes protecting Lyra,” the aeronaut reminded him. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Will breathed in the scent of Lyra’s sleepy body with a happy satisfaction: she was here, she was real. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra had been yelling as Alice washed her and put a clean, dry nappy on her, but it was a shout of general anger rather than distress. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “Lyra,” said the lady on the hawk, “and Will: follow us now, and we shall take you to your dæmons.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra dragged her foot from side to side on the floor. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra woke early to find the morning quiet and warm, as if the city never had any other weather than this calm summer. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Two children, one a girl of Lyra’s age and the other a younger boy, came out of one of the streets leading down to the harbor. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He heard Lyra’s running footsteps from some way off. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Lyra had the impression that there was something to celebrate, though Mrs. Coulter never said what it was. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Or was he somewhere else entirely with the other dæmon, and with Lyra not on his mind at all? The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Through an open doorway Lyra could see another room, where some kind of complicated anbaric machinery stood in silence. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Is there any Guild men in the tower now?” said Lyra. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z With a huge effort, as if she were pushing a boulder up a slope, Lyra forced herself to wake up. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Will and Lyra lifted the sleeping dragonflies up to a shelf in a dark corner, where Tialys said they would rest till daylight, and then the Gallivespians joined them on the table. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “I never told her anything important,” Lyra said. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The ghosts were fascinated by the blood on Lyra’s forehead. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Kindly, Lyra thought, and sharp, and wise; but she could no more read what it meant than she could read the alethiometer. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Mrs. Coulter, on the other hand, was not like any female Scholar Lyra had seen, and certainly not like the two serious elderly lathes who were the other female guests. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Once they were through the inner doorway, Lyra found herself sweltering in what seemed unbearable heat, and had to pull open her furs and push back her hood. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z They were looking down a broken, rugged slope toward a cluster of wooden buildings beside a wide stretch of snow as flat as could be, which Lyra took to be the frozen lake. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Selitos knew that in all the world there were only three people who could match his skill in names: Aleph, lax, and Lyra. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “Well, I trusted him. ’Cause he was good with Lyra. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z As he turned Lyra saw the wild white rims around his pupils, and then the other children realized what was happening and stopped to look. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She was standing right behind them, giving Lyra a break. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z During dinner the Master and Dame Hannah talked of what had happened in Lyra’s absence, and she listened in dismay, or sorrow, or wonder. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “There is food,” said the young bear who had woken Lyra. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z He took Lyra, who had no time to complain before he plugged the bottle in again. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Together, he and Rondon’s right-hand man, Lyra, pulled and pushed the biggest and heaviest canoe. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z If Lyra was in the shrubbery already, she wouldn’t be able to move without making a noise, which would give her away at once. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He and Lyra held each other’s hands tightly as the angel came toward them, with the light of another world shining on her. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra didn't like the taste much, but she had to admit how grand and complicated it was. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Thinking it only natural that people should wish to talk to her, Lyra said simply, “Yes.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z They had almost finished when there came another distraction, though, and from Lyra’s point of view, it was the worst possible. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra’s eyes were watching him, wide with anguish. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z When it was cool enough, he packed it away in the rucksack and sat, ignoring the spies, to wait for Lyra to come back. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Will leapt across the clearing and seized the nearest dæmon while Lyra scooped up the other. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z It was Audrey Boatwright, who had lost hold of Lyra and been knocked off her feet by one of the men. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Lyra reluctantly slipped under the warm water and soaped herself while Pantalaimon perched on the curtain rail. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Before they went back through, Will looked all around, sniffing the air, taking the measure of the world where Lyra was captive. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The Samoyed spoke again, and file man from Bolvangar said to Lyra, “You speak English?” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The food revived Lyra, and presently the chill at her soul began to melt. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z When the lathes withdrew for coffee, Dame Hannah said, “Tell me, Lyra—are they going to send you to school?” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Coulter placed the beaker carefully on a low rock and knelt beside the sleeping Lyra. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra would have expected the family to stare most at the Gallivespians, but their curiosity was directed just as much, she thought, at her and Will. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “And I do believe Lyra. We could promise on his behalf, maybe. He might make all the difference.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra didn’t care for that and started to object, but then Malcolm pretended to get hiccups and she laughed so much she forgot the lanyard and let go. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “I reckon it’s a spirit,” Lyra said, and for a moment she was tempted to throw the little thing into the middle of the fen. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z After the shouts died down, Lyra called out that everyone had been cheered but Cherrie. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Mrs. Coulter, meanwhile, her face in its furs a frozen glare of intense feeling, was dragging Lyra to the back of a motorized sledge, and Lyra struggled as hard as her daemon. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z There was an ornate gateway, with stone seats inside it, and while Mary and Serafina sat there, Will and Lyra climbed over the iron fence into the garden itself. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Will and Lyra had said that the subtle knife was three hundred years old at least. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra shook and sobbed in a frenzy of emotion. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z When Lyra was younger, he had taken an interest in her spiritual welfare, only to be confounded by her sly indifference and insincere repentances. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Pantalaimon, tired of putting out light, had become a bat, which was all very well for him; he fluttered around squeaking quietly while Lyra sat and chewed a fingernail. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z With a secret glee, Lyra hurried there behind the nurse and retrieved her proper furs and leggings and boots, and pulled them on quickly while the nurse dressed herself in coal silk. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra knew the voice and the impatience: it was Mrs. Lonsdale, the Housekeeper. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Sister Katarina was young and pretty, with large dark eyes, but she was nervous, and she made Lyra nervous too. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Just in time Lyra tucked her head down, and then Iorek bounded over them, roaring orders to his bears to go left, go right, and crush the enemy between them. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The people in the shack were still staring, but Lyra’s words eased the atmosphere a little, and the woman invited them to sit at the table, drawing out a bench. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Behind him the bear was kindling a fire, and Lyra watched, curious despite her sorrow. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z More than that—as Lyra had discovered, she had once been a nun. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Lyra turned and darted to the door with relief, remembering to turn and blurt out a “Goodbye.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra felt Pantalaimon nip her hand, warning her not to get cross. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Then Ma Costa folded her great arms around Lyra and pressed her to her breast. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z And yet it wasn’t a bird: it was a daemon, though there was no one in sight but Lyra herself. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The smell of paint was still faintly apparent near Lyra’s nursery. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Lyra shook hands as politely as she could, and was then introduced to the other guests, who were, like Dame Hannah, Scholars from other colleges and quite uninteresting. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “Is there boys here as well?” said Lyra. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “I bet them Gobblers wouldn’t dare come in here,” said Lyra to Simon Parslow, as the two of them stepped over the threshold into the great lodge of Jordan. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Inside the harbor the water was calm, and as they moved past the massive breakwater Lyra began to feel unsteady from the lack of motion. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Puzzled, tired, exhilarated, Lyra did as he told her. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Back and forth the arguments ranged, and Lyra felt her eyes closing. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra saw that three witches were holding a rope looped around a rock, anchoring the great buoyancy of the gas bag to the earth. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z He settled on file couch as one by one all Lyra’s clothes came off, to her resentment and shame; but she still had file presence of mind to conceal it and act dull-witted and compliant. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z While the aeronaut came to the sledge, Lyra slipped away and spoke to the bear. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z But Lyra had to hold Salmakia in her hands, because the Lady had little strength left to cling to Lyra’s shoulder. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The witch covered him with leaves and turned to Lyra, who was still gnawing the rabbit. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Will and Lyra could see them very clearly now. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Naturally Iofur concealed the truth of what he had done; no one knew about it but Iofur himself, and now Lyra knew as well. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra rode a strong young bear, and Roger rode another, while Iorek paced tirelessly ahead and a squad armed with a fire hurler followed guarding the rear. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z In the late afternoon Mary took Will and Lyra along the riverbank, past the fishing posts where the nets were tied, and through the wide salt marsh toward the sea. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z In the gloom, though, Lyra sensed the presence of the Dust, for the air seemed to be full of dark intentions, like the forms of thoughts not yet born. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z But as the wave expended its force and the waters withdrew, the bleak rocks remained; there was no arguing with fate; neither his despair nor Lyra’s had moved them a single inch. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “Is Lyra safe? Has she found her dæmon?” she whispered. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “Well...I lent her to Lord Asriel. When he came and saw Lyra.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The dragonflies were flying sluggishly now, and Tialys explained that they needed to rest; so they perched on Will’s rucksack, and Lyra let the spies sit on her shoulders. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “Really?” said Lyra, her mind elsewhere, furiously drinking about what he’d just said. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z It was difficult to talk while your daemon's attention was somewhere else, so Lyra pretended to look glum and rebellious as she sipped her milk with the other girls. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Iorek Byrnison took not the slightest notice, but continued to rub the seal blubber all over his armor, the care and attention he was paying the task reminding Lyra of her own devotion to Pantalaimon. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “Listen,” he said again, “Lyra, let’s try and remember it exactly. There might be a way through. There might be a loophole.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Under the sizzle of the frying butter and the hum of talk, Lyra shifted around to find a more comfortable position for herself. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Later, Lyra would remember it as a dream. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Lyra slipped down at once and stood between him and Iorek Byrnison, conscious that she had told the bear there was no need for his armor. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “I been cold plenty of times,” Lyra said, to take her mind off the pursuers, “but I en’t been this hot, ever. Is it this hot in your world?” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Lyra realized what the stout mast was for of course, it was a mooring mast. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Finally Lyra had to plead with them to hold back. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “And where do you go to school, my dear?” said an elderly lady, inspecting Lyra through a lorgnette. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z But the young woman, it seemed, was still interested in Lyra, and slipped away from the man to talk to her. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z That caused a murmur of excitement The Master moved out of the way and Lyra could see again. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z She opened her arms, and Lyra fell out and would have hit the ground if Alice hadn’t darted in and caught her. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Lyra saw through half-closed eyes, and felt a sleepy thrill of perfect happiness, to be speeding north under the Aurora. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra nodded eagerly, and said, “And she’s really going to...look after me?” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z And on the way they’d find somewhere that had the supplies Lyra needed, which would include milk now, because she’d had nothing but a biscuit. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z So Lyra gasped at that, and then she looked below, and saw a sight almost more wondrous. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra’s death, having guided them there, bowed to her and stepped into the fog, vanishing before she could ask him what to do next. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z In the corridor outside the room that was now Lyra’s, there was a group of nuns, all of whom Malcolm knew well, and they were crowding nervously around the door, which was closed. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z When they heard him call, Lyra and Roger turned reluctantly and walked, dragging their feet, into the great musty-smelling dimness of the oratory. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z He kissed her, saying, “Yes. Lyra will be safe, and the Kingdom will be powerless against her. Call him now, Marisa, my love.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z During the first part of the afternoon, Lyra and four other girls were tested for Dust. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z They had as much substance as fog, poor things, and Lyra's hands passed through and through them, as did Will’s. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z She was Lyra, cold and frightened by all means, but herself. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Sweet almond paste,” she explained to Lyra, who was looking confused. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra couldn’t control its movement at all; it swung where it wanted to, like a compass needle, except that it didn’t settle. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “Ah,” said Lyra, “that’s what we need to know, because we’re trying to find the land of the dead, and we don’t know how to get there. Where do we go then, when we die?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “Was she asking about Lyra? Because she’s too young to join anything.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z She said, “Lyra, there’s someone else in the lab—police officers or something. They know you came to see me yesterday—I don’t know what they’re after, but I don’t like it. What’s going on?” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Dr. Malone looked at Lyra’s desperate frown and clenched fists, at the bruises on her cheek and her leg, and said, “Dear me, child, calm down.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Lyra told him, as clearly as she could. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The golden monkey darted from her side in a flash, and tugged Pantalaimon out from the mesh cage as Lyra fell out herself. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z She couldn’t do anything else with the baby in her arms, and now Lyra was picking up her anger and seemed frightened. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Lyra gasped: it was like the shock when the men at Bolvangar had seized him. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra had planned to leave the way she’d come, banking on another few minutes before the Steward’s bell rang. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z In fact, Malcolm was still aching and a little dizzy, but the thought of lounging in the cave while Lyra was captive was too horrible to bear. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z After a minute they moved on, and Will and Lyra were happy to walk among the hay-scented, grass-warm creatures who trundled beside them. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z In fact, when Mrs. Coulter realized this and explained how the earth and the other five planets revolved around the sun, Lyra laughed loudly at the joke. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The smells of frying poppy and smoke-leaf drifted pleasantly in through the wardrobe door, and more than once Lyra found herself nodding. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Could he hear Lyra’s voice as well, burbling her nonsense? The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Lyra could smell the tang of the raw spirits that splashed out. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra darted to the oak wardrobe, opened it, and hid inside, pulling the door shut just as the Steward entered. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “Here!” said Lyra, reaching forward to touch a sheet of rock that blocked the way, smooth and wet and cold. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra laid them one by one on the grass, and then they were through, and moving among the bushes. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Find a couple of plates,” he said, and Lyra obediently did so. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z And Pantalaimon said, “Oh, Lyra, forgive us, but we have to tell you what we found out...” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “Well, anyway, I’ve got to find Roger,” said Lyra, burning with her new idea; but it was for Will to know first. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “She is all right,” said Lyra, “’cause I asked the alethiometer, last night. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He might be living with Lyra, but she knew he wouldn’t be able to live with himself. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z And it was Dame Hannah’s face that Lyra found herself studying. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Later, Lyra, who was a cartographer, would plot the course and calculate the distance. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Lyra came placidly enough, happy with her toast. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z All kinds of things had happened while Lyra was away—to Jordan College, to England, to the whole world. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “When I came yesterday,” Lyra said helpfully, “Sister Clara put my other clothes in a cupboard in that first room where she looked at me. The one next door. I could wear them.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “Zeppelins! Gyropters!” she said, laughing and tossing Lyra up and making her laugh too. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z As Pantalaimon fell, trying to twist away and make for the boat and Lyra’s desperate arms, the black things kept driving into him, droning, buzzing, and murderous. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z He’d have to open it quickly, pull Lyra through, and close it again at once. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Asta flew to him, perching on Lyra’s blanket, and made soft cooing noises. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z She fled to his breast and he cradled her close and stood to face the children, and Lyra thought for a crazy second that his dæmon had appeared at last. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Lyra said hotly, and she even stamped her foot. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Because your knowledge ought not to just vanish,” Lyra said encouragingly. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z It was impossible to tell if she was old or young, but her expression was austere and compassionate, and both Will and Lyra felt as if she knew them to their hearts. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra thought she could even hear them: a vast distant whispering swish. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra found her power over him almost intoxicating, and if Pantalaimon hadn’t nipped her hand sharply to remind her of the danger they were all in, she might have lost all her sense of proportion. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Pantalaimon changed into a swallow and flew through, delighting in the open air, and then snapped up an insect before darting back through to Lyra’s shoulder again. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Hadn’t Lyra said that the scientists in her world had discovered something like that about Dust, which was their name for Shadows? The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “I wish—” Lyra said when they had nearly left the square, stopping to look back up. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Pantalaimon fluttered in protest, but Lyra quelled him with a scowl. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z In his study they prayed together for an hour, and then Father MacPhail granted the young priest the preemptive absolution that would make his murder of Lyra no murder at all. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “I mean, for example,” said Lyra, “I bet you know more about the bears than he does, for a start.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra blinked and sighed, as if she were waking after a sleep. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Me too,” said Lyra, though she was also feeling more than that, something subdued and pressing and half-happy and half-painful, so that she wasn’t quite sure what it was. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra said quietly, “Will, is this the world of the dead?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z When she looked through it, she saw those drifting golden sparkles, the sraf, the Shadows, Lyra’s Dust, like a vast cloud of tiny beings floating through the wind. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Nevertheless, at that moment he was blinded by his twin obsessions: to destroy Lyra and to possess her mother. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra looked again at her uncle, who was watching the Scholars with a glitter of sardonic amusement, and saying nothing. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Alice was playing with Lyra, holding her up so her feet touched the ground, pretending to make her walk. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z If he was right, the valley where Lyra was captive, according to the shaman, lay some way to the east and the south, and the best way there led through a pass called Sungchen. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “Behind the chair—quick!” whispered Pantalaimon, and in a lash Lyra was out of the armchair and crouching behind it. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z She had noticed before that he could change in Lyra’s sleep, although he was asleep himself. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Besides, Lyra’s hands were deft, and she was desperate to help; so the small human tent over the great bear-king, packing in the bloodmoss and freezing the raw flesh till it stopped bleeding. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The woman was holding the beaker in one steely-firm hand while her other was trying to lift Lyra’s head. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “And if I’m shivering like this, I’ll never keep quiet in that nursery looking for Lyra. Are you sure we’ll recognize her? Babies are all pretty much the same, en’t they?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z He kissed Lyra over and over again, and then held puppy Asta to his heart, to his face, to his lips. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z When Lyra and Will came in with the bushes, Iorek directed them in placing branches carefully on the fire. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “Lyra? I don’t know a Lyra. What an unusual name. I know a child called Lizzie. And who are you?” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “This is only half the lock I cut from Lyra. He must have kept back some of it.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z It was the strangest thing: Lyra knew exactly what she meant, and half an hour earlier she would have had no idea at all. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “Very well. You are to take her where she wishes to go and do as she bids. Lyra, I’m a commanding you now, you understand?” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The understanding was beginning to dawn on Will and Lyra. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z As Lyra and the two College boys left Jericho when suppertime neared, they saw the gyptians gathering on the wharf next to where the Costas ’ boat was moored. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z He and Lyra had slept in servants’ rooms under the attic, not feeling welcomed by the stately four-poster beds in the grand rooms farther down, and it was a long unsteady walk. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z 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? The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The man cursed and dodged aside, and Lyra darted past him toward the open spaces of the wharf. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra looked at Will and saw him nod. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra saw him breathing fast and clenching his fists, and was sensible enough not to ask why; it was something to do with him, not with her. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z And for the first time, Will and Lyra thought they could see those things, like veils of shimmering gauze, falling from the sky like thistledown. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Soon everyone knew the story of how Lanre had died, and how his love and Lyra’s power had drawn him back. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Wherever he went, Lyra went, too, wishing she had something to fight with as Will was doing, but looking around, watching more widely. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “But Lyra’s father’s here, and he’s being pursued by—by his enemies, and he really needs to see Lyra before—before he goes on somewhere else. To—to say good-bye,” he added. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Through tear-blurred eyes Lyra saw her totter and clutch at a bench; her face, so beautiful and composed, grew in a moment haggard and horror-struck. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z As they reached the first of the houses, Lyra looked to the right and left, peering hard into the dimness, for the Aurora was fading and the moon still far from rising. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Coulter came into the bathroom to wash Lyra’s hair, and she didn’t rub and scrape like Mrs. Lonsdale either. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “You don’t even know what it is you stole,” Lyra stormed. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t go to school,” Lyra told her. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z She flew around again, aiming directly for Lyra’s face; but Will took out the knife and threw himself in the way. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z All the witches were asleep on the grass, and so were Will and Lyra. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Lyra wandered away on her own, and went to the reedy bank to sit and throw mud into the water. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra watched as a condemned prisoner watches the stir at the back of the courtroom that might be a messenger with a pardon. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra came out of the focused calm she shared with the alethiometer and drifted back to the present moment to find herself no longer alone. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He thought there wouldn’t be much time to find Lyra and get out again, even if he could get in. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z It looked like Lyra, but the nun had been so sure.... The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Lyra turned her back abruptly and slammed into her bedroom, but no sooner had she banged the door shut behind her than it opened again. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z It took Will and Lyra a while to get used to the living impulse of the muscles and the shuddering thunder of the hard wheels on the hard stone. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “That poison,” Lyra said, turning back to the Gallivespians, “in your spurs, I mean, is it deadly? Because you stung my mother, Mrs. Coulter, didn’t you? Will she die?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra was almost more fascinated by this than by the changing landscape below the airship. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Having failed to find Gobblers below ground, Lyra took to the streets again. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Then he said to Lyra: “Stay here, and don’t touch the knife.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Oakley Street had heard that Lyra was in danger, and he wanted to make sure of the arrangements for her safety. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Lyra sipped the milk and lifted a corner of the blind to watch the dark wharves move past. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z His words fell into Lyra’s mind like heavy stones, and Will, too, felt the deadly weight of them. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z And it was Lyra who woke them when the gray light of a wet dawn crept into the cave. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z He gathered the things in the order he thought them important, so pillows and dry blankets came first, and then nappies and baby milk and other things for Lyra. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The woman was still feeding Lyra, but when they arrived, she took the child away from her breast. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z There was a secret compartment beneath Ma’s bunk, where Lyra lay cramped for two hours while the police banged up and down the length of the boat unsuccessfully. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra was conscious every single second of her dear, abandoned Pantalaimon. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z And he knew that Lyra was doing the same, and that the tightness and strain in her smile were the signs of it. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He moved away with the Chaplain, leaving Lyra with a clear view of the Master’s face. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Through the tumult of voices, one voice cried out to him with perfect clarity, that of Lyra, and he called back, “Lyra! Lyra! I’m coming!” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Time went past; stars set and other stars rose; a little cry came from the sleepers, but it was only Lyra dreaming. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Will and Lyra spent every hour together, and for them the two weeks of the voyage passed like the blink of an eyelid. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “No,” said Lyra, “because you’d just go and tell them. You’ll have to come along without knowing where we’re going. Of course you could always give up and go back to them.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He shoved Lyra at her, and she took her with firm arms, and then he pulled the canopy back over her and got in himself. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The ghosts crowded so close that Will’s body and Lyra’s felt little jolts of cold along every nerve. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z All he could do was point at Will and Lyra. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z How lucky he and Lyra were to have her to rely on! The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “Will,” said Lyra, “what d’you think the harpies will do when we let the ghosts out?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Pantalaimon scampered before her, flowing up the stairs to the very top, where Lyra’s bedroom was. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z It was so loud that he didn’t even notice Lyra crying until Alice leaned forward and picked her up. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z His daemon flapped up to the chair back and sat by his head; her old hooded eyes on Lyra. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The figures outside nodded, one or two of them gave little bows, and they stood aside respectfully as Will and Lyra walked into the warmth and light. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z And a moment later he was on the grass under the palm trees, and a second or two afterward Lyra followed. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Lyra felt tears shaken out of her eyes by the trembling of her body, and threw herself onto the sofa. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Lyra looked into Will’s brilliant, strong eyes and smiled. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The Lady’s companion, the Chevalier, was opening the case of the lodestone resonator, and, curiosity overcoming resentment, Lyra watched to see what he did. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He thought of the pretty little nursery the nuns had made for Lyra at Godstow and clenched his fists. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z But Will, too, found an agony building inside him, and through the pain he saw that the two Gallivespians, clinging together just as he and Lyra were doing, were moved by the same anguish. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z From the sound of the waves, Lyra judged them to have reached the top of the cliffs, and she dared not run away in case she fell over the edge. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Malcolm picked up the biscuit that had fallen from Lyra’s hand and gave it to her again. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “When did you stop being a nun?” said Lyra. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He said to Lyra, “I suppose you’re just waking up, are you? It’s all right for some. It’s a nice life being a baby.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Lyra sat up, excited at hearing the names of her old friends. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra watched this game with puzzlement and respect. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra relaxed a little, and allowed herself to feel the pain in her shoulder and wrist. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “I heard a little. I couldn’t sleep, but I wasn’t listening. Where is Lyra now, does anyone know?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z When he unfolded the cloth, Lyra saw something like a large watch or a small clock: a thick disk of gold and crystal. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Moving very slowly so as not to waken Lyra, he laid her down among the blankets and climbed out of the canoe, to stand shivering on the sodden grass, taking Asta in his arms. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “You don’t need to know that now. It doesn’t matter. Lyra,” Sir Charles said, turning to her, “tell me about your remarkable friend.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Lyra felt a mixture of thoughts contending in her head, and she would have liked nothing better than to share them with her daemon, but she was proud too. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra felt that that was probably true, but there was nothing she could do about it. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “And I got to find out about Dust,” Lyra explained. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Tight-faced, Lyra slid down the roof and into the gutter, and then climbed in through the window again. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Pantalaimon was a lemur, with the biggest eyes he could manage, clinging to Lyra’s shoulder, pressing himself into her fog-pearled hair, peering all around and seeing no more than she did. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “I didn’t want to tell him,” Lyra said quietly, “but I saw a man up there last night. He looked down when the kids were making all that noise....” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a tangle of narrow streets between there and the Royal Arctic Institute, which was the only place Lyra was sure of being able to find, and into that dark maze she hurried now. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z With him came a little cloud of gold: was it Lyra’s hair? The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “Ama here got some powder to wake you up,” he said, speaking very quietly, and Lyra turned to the girl, seeing her for the first time, and put her hand on Ama’s shoulder in thanks. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z And now that Lyra had the taste for exploring it, she abandoned her usual haunt, the irregular alps of the College roofs, and plunged with Roger into this netherworld. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z A badger, an owl, and a baboon were all just as intent to pin Pantalaimon down, and Lyra was crying to them: “Why? Why are you doing this? Help us! You shouldn’t be helping them!” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z He married a woman named Lyra, and his love for her was a passion fiercer than fury. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “Why are they so interested in daemons?” said Lyra. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Behind him, Lyra turned the meat over on the fire, and Will looked at his wounds, to see how they were healing. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z It was seawater coming in on the tide, and it was strange to Lyra, who had never swum in salt water before. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z And they were making for Will and Lyra, with an air of intention. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He crouched by the canoe and pulled the blanket higher over Alice’s shoulders, tucking it around Lyra’s head, making sure she could breathe. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z He also hiked for miles with Rondon and Lyra, scouting the area ahead to find out what they were up against. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Once he had the canoe concealed, he gathered the things they needed for Lyra and made his way up to the house. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The old man held open the door on his side, so that Lyra had to climb past his knees to get out. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “I wonder why she’s so sad,” Will said as he and Lyra climbed the road up to the ridge. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “Oh, be careful,” whispered Salmakia, but Lyra’s mind was already racing ahead through the story she’d told the night before, shaping and cutting and improving and adding: parents dead; family treasure; shipwreck; escape... The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Dr. Malone sat down again, and hooked another chair out with her ankle for Lyra. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “As for you, Lyra,” said Father Heyst, ‘I’m pleased to see you taking an interest in what lies in the oratory. You are a lucky child, to have all this history around you.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Much later that night, Will and Lyra crouched in the lane that ran along beside the tree-shaded shrubbery in Sir Charles’s garden. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “And you were wealthy and high-ranking,” said Lyra, marveling. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra sat close to the anvil, where the knife lay cooling, and Iorek told her to bank the fire up and not let it burn down: there was a final operation yet. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z At first Lyra thought it was another child, but coming from inside the semicircle was a horrible high wailing that wasn’t human at all. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Lyra and Will went ahead, hand in hand, to the place where they had to part, and the women stayed some way behind, talking like sisters. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Another scream shattered the silence, much louder than before, and she beat her dark wings so hard that Will and Lyra both felt the wind and staggered. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra sat determinedly still, but she was breathing quickly, and her heart was beating hard. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “He’s probably just a traveler and he found a window and wandered through from somewhere else,” Lyra said when Mary had finished. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Moved by compassion for the state they were in, Mary first meant to embrace him as well as Lyra. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Five minutes later Lyra had forgotten the moral, but she hadn’t forgotten the little whirling vanes in the ray of dusty light. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra was waiting for him to greet her, but he finished his remarks about the tide and pilotage before turning to the incomers. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra said to them, “Listen, you better go and keep watch, right Billy, you go that way, and Roger, watch out the way we just come. We en’t got long.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “The Master told me there was only six made,” Lyra said. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z As for Lyra, she hadn’t moved a muscle since that strange thing had happened, and she held the memory of the sensation inside her. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra was humming, or saying something to Pantalaimon, or just expressing her pleasure in the soggy biscuit. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Lyra did the same, and as the message passed along, some children cried out and clutched their daemons in fear. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “There’s a plan to escape,” Lyra said quietly. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Will and Lyra didn’t stop to look; they stumbled over the rough ground at a crouch, intent only on getting away unseen. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra could feel his desire to be there among them, but all the time her nerves were screaming: On! The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z But the boat mother set her hands on either side of Lyra’s face, and her daemon, a hawk, bent gently to lick Pantalaimon’s wildcat head. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z First Lyra jumped and then Will followed, rolling over and trying to protect his hand, which was bleeding freely again and hurting badly. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z As he did so, he caught sight of Lyra. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “Nothing. ’S all right, Lyra,” he called back, though his eyes were filled with tears of pain and he could hardly think. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “You stole—” began Lyra hotly, but Will looked at her, and she stopped. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Lyra was shaking with anger and grief, striding up and down with clenched fists and turning her tear-streaming face this way and that as if looking for an answer. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “There she is,” said Tialys, and called: “Lyra! Lyra! Your friend is there!” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “You finished your biscuit?” he said to Lyra. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z And once all his consciousness was back in the little enclosed space under the canopy, he could easily tell what Alice had made out earlier: Lyra needed changing. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “I want to go to the Botanic Garden,” Lyra said. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra picked up the alethiometer and folded its velvet cloth over it, like a mother protecting her child, before putting it back in her rucksack. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z As she passed her on the way to the armchair, Mrs. Coulter touched Lyra’s hair briefly, and Lyra felt a current of warmth flow into her, and blushed. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z He left the room, and when he came back a minute later with Mrs. Coulter, Lyra was on her feet, too excited to sit. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z He’d seized the rope when Lyra dropped it, and now he wrapped it around his left hand for protection against the knife. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, it’s lovely, Malcolm. Look, Lyra! It’s a—It’s a block of—What is it?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Will and Lyra had been asleep all afternoon, and they were just stirring now, hearing the noise. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “I just thought,” he added, “if she was meaning any harm to Lyra, it might frighten her a bit.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Lyra looked around quickly, saw no one nearby, and took out the alethiometer. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Let’s go below and have a look. Take it careful, Lyra. Hold that tight.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra struggled up, and with Pantalaimon calling, “This way! This way!” among the other daemon-cries and flutterings, she hauled herself over the rubble. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “Who was it watching over me?” said Lyra. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “And you got to call me Lizzie,” Lyra said, “never Lyra. And you got to tell me everything you know, right.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z As the two of them conferred, Lyra watched their daemons. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Pantalaimon was agitated and fearful, but he didn’t want the witch’s daemon to see his fear, so he had flown to Lyra’s breast and taken sanctuary inside her furs. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra lifted Pantalaimon close to her breast, and he became a black rat, whipping his tail around and around her wrist and glaring at Sir Charles with red eyes. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Will and Lyra climbed up once more, and the other creatures looked closely at their balance and checked the stirrups with their trunks, as if to make sure they were safe. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Will stared back, and the dæmon became a mouse once more and crept into Lyra’s pocket. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Lyra didn’t want to look, but Will went to see if the man was still alive and needed help. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Sir Charles sat in the front, half-turned around, and Will and Lyra sat in the back, with Pantalaimon a mouse now, soothed in Lyra’s hands. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Will and Lyra moved down the slope until they were close enough to speak to them. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He told her about the plan to kill Lyra. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Shivering and frightened and full of pain as he and Lyra were, they had more authority than the whole mass of the dead put together. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z So he cried, but he lay very still as he did, not wanting to wake Lyra. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Malcolm let go of the canoe and quickly picked up Lyra, and Alice, turning to see what was happening, said, “Oh, God, no.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Next day Will and Lyra went out by themselves again, speaking little, eager to be alone with each other. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z They ran off to do as she said, and then Lyra turned back to the door. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra barged open the door, dragged her rickety chair to the window, flung wide the casement, and scrambled out. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Only Lyra knew that he wouldn’t be able to touch the other man, and certainly the other blinked and stared for a second, but Will saw that he hadn’t really registered it. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z On the grass next to him, Lyra was moving her head about, blinking hard. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Lyra, intrigued and eager to fly, held it above her head and jumped, and ran about in the snow trying to be a witch. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra watched breathless, not daring to move a muscle. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Will trembled with excitement, and his mind leapt to a single point: to a new window in the air between his world and Lyra’s. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra had never heard it before, but she knew it at once: it was the howl of the Tartar guards’ wolf daemons. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra held his hand and rubbed her eyes. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Tialys took off again, and then Lyra reached the tree and sat down on one of the thick roots. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He was a soldier from Lyra’s own world, an African. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “Will,” said Lyra after some minutes, “can you hear that wind?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He whispered all this to Lyra, rocking her from side to side as he walked about. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z She showed Will and Lyra how to gather a particular kind of mollusk by finding their breathing tubes just above the sand. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra did as he said, and he cut through four bars altogether, enough for them to pass through without difficulty. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The Master had given Lyra her own key to the garden door so she could come and go as she pleased. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z It couldn’t be true, but it was: Lyra was gone, Lyra was captured, Lyra was lost. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He shoved Lyra at Alice and picked up a big stone to hammer on the door with. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z His pale eyes looked briefly at the young woman, and then back to Lyra. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Lyra was watching the...whatever they were; they were very strange. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “It was telling us about these things all the time,” said Lyra. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra tried some of everything, but like Will she soon found that a little was quite enough. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra clutched him to her and faced the death directly. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The Tartars, in a tight group now around the sledge, were able to blaze at will into the snow, but the gyptians dared not shoot back for fear of hitting Lyra. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z He checked that the knife was strapped to his belt, and Lyra put on her little rucksack with the alethiometer and the letters from Will’s father. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Lyra said, “No. Not even with Mrs. Coulter. What are they?” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra watched for Mrs. Coulter, but she didn’t see her, and then the Master came into the study and shut the door. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra stood still, clenching her little human fists. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z She went to drop it on the pile with Lyra’s other clothes, but stopped, feeling the edge of the alethiometer. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra knew that this was a time to conciliate, and she was happy to do that, having gotten her way. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Alice was feeding Lyra, sitting under the lantern light, looking exhausted. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z He opened the Bible again and pointed it out to Lyra. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z His black eyes showed a glint of satisfaction, especially when Pantalaimon slid out of Lyra’s anorak to bare his white ermine teeth in a hiss. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z It was the first thing Lyra wanted to know. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lightly, as if his armor weighed no more than his fur, the bear-king spun to face Will and Lyra, who were struggling upright. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra couldn’t help it: she laughed out loud at the notion of these tiny people making her do anything. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra didn’t recognize that word, but clearly the Scholars did. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z And Lyra couldn’t touch them, no matter how she tried. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Then it glided down and landed with brisk sweeps of its powerful pinions, and came to a halt on the wooden deck a few yards from Lyra. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The woman gently lifted her daughter so that her shoulders were off the ground and her head lolled, and then Lyra caught her breath and her eyes half-opened, fluttering, heavy. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z So now that she was in the hands of the Oblation Board, Lyra didn’t fret herself into terror about what had happened to the gyptians. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Will got up and said, “Thanks,” and he and Lyra moved away together. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Lyra told her, and the ghosts pressed forward eagerly again. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “Lyra, you must run back and mingle with the other children. Be brave, child. The gyptians are coming as fast as they can. I must help these poor daemons to find their people.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra wondered how she had ever, ever, ever found this woman to be so fascinating and clever. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The Chevalier’s eyes flashed hatred at Will, and defiance and warning at Lyra, and a cold and wary respect at Iorek. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The length of the boat and the sleeping Lyra lay between them, or otherwise, he felt, they would have embraced and wept together. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The saucepan had boiled and the water had cooled enough for Lyra’s bottle, so Alice filled it and started to feed her. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Lyra shouted at the chef, who boxed her ears and sent her storming away. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra’s clothes had come to her through Mrs. Lonsdale, and a lot of them had been handed down and much mended. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z When Lyra came down, clean and wet, they left to look for some clothes for her. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah, that’s what I heard too,” Lyra said, with no idea what he was talking about. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It was about as long as Lyra’s thumb, and dark green, not black. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z As Lyra looked at her, she had a shock: the blankets stirred, and a very thin arm emerged, in a black sleeve, and then another face, a man’s, so ancient it was almost a skeleton. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z After swallowing several times, the bear put the jar down and turned back to gnaw his haunch of meat, heedless of Farder Coram and Lyra, it seemed; but then he spoke again. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “Ask him if I can borrow his lantern,” Lyra said. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z As they saw Lyra, they slowed for a moment, but then the race took hold of them again. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The nurse was about as old as Mrs. Coulter, Lyra guessed, with a brisk, blank, sensible air; she would be able to stitch a wound or change a bandage, but never to tell a story. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “The thing is,” said Lyra, “they can’t make us do what they want. They got to follow us. I bet they’re fed up.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Alice, holding Lyra, had retreated further up the slope, but the open space was not very large: close-branched holm oaks with spiked leaves crowded in on all sides. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Even in the dimness, Malcolm could see her face, sharp and anxious and angry, and he saw her bend forward to adjust Lyra’s blankets and stroke her face. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z But the fox daemon tore at the cat Pantalaimon, and Lyra felt the pain in her own flesh, and sobbed a great cry as he fell. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z After darkness had fallen, and when the stores and equipment had all been safely unloaded and stood in waiting on the quay, Farder Coram and Lyra walked along the waterfront and looked for Einarsson’s Bar. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z A cold drench of terror went down Lyra’s spine, and Pantalaimon crept very close. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “Big,” said Lyra’s muffled voice, “and ever so strong, and pale eyes...” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Lyra got up, taking her spice cake with her, and no one noticed; Lee Scoresby was already dealing the cards, and every suspicious eye was on his hands. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Inside the building Lyra found a wide desk at the foot of the stairs, with a porter behind it. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The nipple slipped out of Lyra’s mouth, and the woman lifted her up to her shoulder and patted her back. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “Then we better do that soon,” said Lyra. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Neither Will nor Lyra was quite expecting this, and they stepped inside uncertainly. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The porter turned to his telephone, and Lyra watched pityingly as he pressed the buttons and spoke into it. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Pantalaimon’s owl cry the night before had frightened every small creature that heard it, but it was nothing to the passionate wail that Lyra uttered now. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “Yeah. I saw his head,” Lyra said proudly. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Then she gave Lyra some pajamas and a dressing gown. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “But Mr. Parry,” said Lyra, “how do you know our dæmons have gone into my father’s world?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Will lit the little tin lantern he’d taken from his father’s pack, using the dry matches that he’d found with it, and crouched in the lee of the rock to open Lyra’s rucksack. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Will and Lyra simply watched in fear and amazement. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He wanted Lyra to feel warm and clean and happy and well fed. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z But just as Lyra’s love had drawn him back from past the final door before, so this time Lanre’s power forced him to return from sweet oblivion. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z They had nothing to fear anymore, and they threw themselves against the invisible Specters, grappling and wrestling and tearing at things Will and Lyra couldn’t see at all. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “What was it you said Lyra’s father was the king of?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z It was just after Lyra had been taken, just after Will had come down from the mountaintop, just after the witch had killed his father. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Malcolm had Lyra in his left arm, tight against his chest. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The change in motion had woken Lyra, and she began to cry quietly. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “Did you find out where Lyra is?” he said, impatient for news. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z All but two, that is, who stood close by, arrows at their bowstrings, guarding Will and Lyra. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Lyra could see nothing: her face was buried in Pantalaimon’s cat fur. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra slipped off his back, and found it hard to stand. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Because Lyra now realized, if she hadn’t done so before, that all the fear in her nature was drawn to Mrs. Coulter as a compass needle is drawn to the Pole. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra was twisting and struggling, and Pantalaimon was chirruping like a frightened bird. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Lyra came after Will, and Pantalaimon became a kestrel and flew up as high as he could, making Lyra gasp. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra pulled open the door against the snow and slipped inside. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Iorek growled an order and the bears moved at once into another formation, hi the lurid flicker from the sky Lyra watched as they swiftly unloaded their fire hurler. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z All this time Malcolm had heard Lyra and her little dæmon chattering away in their pidgin English. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The sentry’s head, bleeding and wet and ash-pale, fell to the ground as he fainted, and his dæmon set about calming and gentling him as the bear stepped away beside Lyra. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z As soon as Lyra had gone her way, Will found a pay phone and dialed the number of the lawyer’s office on the letter he held. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Lyra felt like telling the bear to kill him, but she said, “We’re taking the child away for them. They can afford to give one fish to pay for that.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra was about to tell her one of the bloodcurdling stories she’d made up to frighten the Oxford kids with, but the man was already speaking. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra lay unmoving, but her eyes were wide open in the dark, and her heart was beating hard. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Alice went with him, Lyra silent and asleep in her arms. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The quicker they got Lyra out, the better, and that meant darting down there now before Mrs. Coulter woke up, cutting through, pulling her to safety, and closing again. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra’s journey along the canals and her time with the gyptians had taken weeks: she’d have to account for that time. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z They were about a hundred yards away when they saw Will and Lyra at the café table. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Lyra had been walking for an hour now, and it was cold and damp. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The answer was complicated, with the needle swinging from symbol to symbol in a sequence that made Lyra puzzle for a long time. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “I thought you said you was,” said Lyra. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z That name shook a little bell in Lyra’s mind. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Something in the way he said it made Lyra imagine dust with a capital letter, as if this wasn’t ordinary dust. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Will had no idea of the taboo in Lyra’s world preventing one person from touching another’s dæmon, and if he hadn’t touched Pantalaimon before, it was politeness that had held him back and not knowledge. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Malcolm stuffed the paper back in the rucksack and took Lyra from Alice, holding her high so the giant could see. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Will said to Lyra quietly, “How long did you say you’d been here?” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z They had to form teams and throw balls around, and at first Lyra, who had never in her life played at anything like this, was at a loss what to do. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “Are you staying in Oxford, Lyra? Where are you staying?” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z In some ways Lyra knew Will’s world better than he did. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Doesn’t it scare you, having your death close by all the time?” said Lyra. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He laid Lyra on the enormous palm, and she gazed up at the giant with perfect confidence, and Pantalaimon sang like a nightingale. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Will leapt over the bodies, and Lyra went with him, running hard and fast with Pantalaimon racing wildcat-formed at their heels. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Will darted forward suddenly, just as he’d done to the man in his house, and with the same effect: his antagonist tumbled backward unexpectedly, falling over Lyra to crash onto the lead. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Lyra said, “Where do they go to talk?” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “Lyra? Frankly, I don’t care,” he said, his voice quiet and hoarse. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Once the terror had begun to subside, they set off again, Will holding Lyra’s hand tightly in his good one. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra stood up, clutching her doll, and Pantalaimon hopped onto her shoulder as the nurse opened the door to lead them out. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra moved slightly so that she could see the screen, where a brilliant white circle had begun to glow. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z His voice was an English one, without any accent Lyra could name. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z In the very last gray of the day, he could see Alice stumbling across the grass in great haste, carrying Lyra. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z When she saw the expression on Lyra’s face and the way that Pantalaimon, mouse-formed, was pressing himself close to her breast, the Lady Salmakia left what she was doing to come and speak with her. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He fell sideways in a flutter of shock and pain, and Lyra cried out, feeling it sharply. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Malcolm decided to fill the time by teaching Lyra how to talk. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z She led him back down the corridor and stopped at the door of the room Lyra had been in. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Lyra was gradually coming more and more awake. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t know why she came to the priory to see Lyra. She’s too young to join anything.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z He could hear Alice whispering, desperate for Lyra to stay quiet. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Pantalaimon flew down to her wrist, and sat there glowing while Lyra composed her mind. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z He found himself liking her, because she was brave, and because she seemed like a more complicated and richer and deeper Lyra. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra’s furs looked ragged and they stank, but they kept the warmth in. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z But before they left, Lyra looked up at the tower. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah, that one,” said Lyra, and pretended to listen carefully as the woman gave her instructions. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Lyra held Pantalaimon tight and let Mrs. Coulter stroke her hair. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z After they had been driving along for such a time that Lyra’s body was in torment from cramp, the pace slackened a little, and someone roughly pulled off the hood. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “See that milky streak there? That’s the Milky Way. And on one side you see Aquila. That’s Latin for eagle. And on the other side you see Lyra, the Lyre—that’s a kind of harp.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Sensing the danger, Iofur snarled and shook himself as Lyra had seen Iorek shake himself at the water’s edge, sending sheets of water flying high into the air. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The daemon seemed suspicious, and cast around as if she’d sensed an intruder, but didn’t make for the wardrobe, to Lyra’s intense relief. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Coulter made sympathetic sounds and put the drink into the monkey’s hands while she mopped Lyra’s eyes with a scented handkerchief. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z And I don’t know how Lyra will find her way to her father. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z It was damaging, and the universe was suffering because of it, and she must talk to Will and Lyra and find a way to stop it. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The thought came to Will and Lyra at the same moment, and they exchanged a tear-filled glance. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z She knelt beside Lyra and smoothed the damp hair back from the sleeping face before bending low to kiss her daughter’s cheek. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra, helpless, could only imagine what had happened: somehow Mrs. Coulter must have crossed that chasm, and followed her up here.... The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra turned her back and closed her eyes. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “D’you think these enemies of his were the same people who tried to take Lyra away from the priory? The Court of Protection, or whatever it was?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Then she wished passionately that nothing had changed, nothing would ever change, that she could be Lyra of Jordan College forever and ever. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra could see what he was thinking: he was going to say that this had gone too far, they must turn back, they were taking this foolishness to irresponsible lengths. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra felt mutinous, but the Lady’s glittering spurs were very clear in the sunlight, so she said nothing. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Will and Lyra clung tight with hands and knees. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “My child! My daughter! Where is she? What have you done? My Lyra—you’d do better to tear the fibers from my heart—she was safe with me, safe, and now where is she?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z His mind was sharp and clear and powerful, though, and soon Lyra came to love him for his knowledge and for the firm way he directed her. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z As soon as her eyes had adjusted to the light, Lyra saw why. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “No, but if Lyra returns to her own world, then I will be her sister as long as she lives. What will you do?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The thought of falling induced a kind of vertigo in Lyra, and she swayed. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra led him almost to the end of the garden, over a little bridge, to a wooden seat under a spreading, low-branched tree. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “But if we get his armor back, he’ll come with us and never bother ’em again,” said Lyra. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z She had put Lyra down on the grass and was tugging La Belle Sauvage out of the bushes, so Malcolm dropped the rucksack in the canoe and joined her. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Will and Lyra could hear very faintly to the north the cry of some night bird. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Lyra hesitated, for this was not lying but something else, and she wasn’t practiced at it. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra saw at once who it was, and marveled at this grown-up vision of Will—the same jutting jaw, the same way of holding his head. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Will felt himself grow dizzy, and Lyra was restraining Pantalaimon, hare-formed himself in sympathy, who was bucking and snapping in her arms. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The only bright things in the whole landscape were the brilliant red-and-yellow and electric blue of the dragonflies, and their little riders, and Will and Lyra, and Pantalaimon, who was hovering kestrel-shaped close above. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “Oh ...she’s a physicist. She studies dark matter,” said Lyra, still not quite in control. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Lyra recognized it: Uncle Asriel had it, and so did the Master of Jordan. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra could see their faint faces in the dimness. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Pantalaimon, cricket-formed in Lyra’s breast pocket, was agitated; she could feel him against her breast, and hoped the tremor didn’t show. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Lyra was nearly mad with Pantalaimon’s fear and her own, but then something swept past her and upward. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z He and Lyra stayed with the wolves for a while, and then moved to Oxford to work in the kitchens of Jordan College. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z She did seem to take Lyra in a steady and competent way, and when she patted the child’s back, a gigantic burp emerged, which startled her little dæmon into becoming a turkey chick. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z She was looking at Lyra, who was determined to drain the bottle. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Lyra stopped and turned to see a man lying on the snow, with a gray-feathered arrow in his back. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z She scrambled up onto the sill, but Lyra jabbed the length of rail at her fiercely, and she fell back again. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Lyra’s hair was damp, and her eyes moved behind their closed lids. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z From her not-much-of-a-hiding place Lyra watched as the Master went to a large oak wardrobe in the corner of the room, took his gown from a hanger, and pulled it laboriously on. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “What do you want with us?” said Lyra. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Farder Coram touched the spray of pine as if for luck, and on his face was an expression Lyra had never seen before: almost a longing. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z She wasn’t Lyra just then, and he wasn’t Will; she wasn’t a girl, and he wasn’t a boy. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra couldn’t see the door, but she heard an intake of breath as the first man came in. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra feared Mrs. Coulter and thought about her often. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra listened awhile, and then lay back in the deck chair with Pantalaimon curled around her neck, and thought of the grand vision the goose daemon had brought with him. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “He wants to hurt Lyra. Or kidnap her.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z When I was traveling north to Bolvangar with the gyptians, the child Lyra told me about something that happened in the college she used to live in, back in Oxford. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He spoke her name and took Lyra in his arms to comfort her. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Lyra woke up and began to complain, and then tasted something strange and smacked her lips. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z She was standing on a rock three or four paces away from Will and Lyra, distinct and brilliant in the moonlight. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z And then there came a day of long, hard walking: no trouble for Will, but a torment to Lyra, whose limbs were weakened and softened after her long sleep. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z They were younger than most of the children by the tower, Lyra thought, and she joined them in the water, with Pantalaimon as a little silver fish glittering beside her. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The ghosts walked straight into the squalid confusion of the town, as if they knew exactly where they were going, and Lyra and Will were about to follow them; but then they were stopped. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “You saw her. And I picked her up,” Lyra said, blushing, because of course it was a gross violation of manners to touch something so private as someone else’s dæmon. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z She patted Lyra on the back, and the child burped loudly. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Malcolm could see nothing, of course, but it sounded as if Alice had her hand over Lyra’s mouth, and then came a sound of contentment from the child. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Lyra said, or began to say, because before she’d finished the question she heard voices outside the door. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z She put the bottle down and lifted Lyra up to pat her back. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z While Rondon and Lyra checked out the area, Kermit decided to find out if it would be easier to travel down the other side of the river, hoping to save them some time. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z She leaned forward, holding out something the size of Lyra’s palm, brown and squashed. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z When the adult insects emerged, they would be more like dragonflies than anything else, but they were not like any kind of dragonfly that the humans of Will’s world, or Lyra’s, would have seen before. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Whenever they saw a hilltop or a roof rising above the water, Malcolm stopped, tied up, built a fire, and one or the other of them attended to Lyra. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Lyra leaped up, and Pantalaimon became a seagull at once, eager to stretch his wings in the open. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z If he’d arrived there thirty seconds earlier or later, he would never have seen the cat, never have found the window, never have discovered Cittàgazze and Lyra; none of this would have happened. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra watched her coldly, and then looked up toward the sky. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Will wanted to turn and denounce them, but Lyra held his arm; they were unhappy and frightened, she said. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra was mystified until she realized the old lady’s mistake. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “If we keep moving toward Lyra,” Will said, “will you find us?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z They seemed to have settled into a dull trance, and Lyra wanted to shake them, to urge them to struggle and wake up and look around for a way out. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z It was like the thickest fog Lyra had ever known. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra found Lord Asriel in a room whose wide windows overlooked the frozen sea far below. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Neva: had Lyra seen it so brilliant and dramatic; with every twitch and shiver, new miracles of light danced across the sky. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra exulted in it, feeling with him as he flew, and urging him mentally to provoke the old tillerman’s cormorant daemon into a race. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Once they’d gone, all the nuns flooded into the baby’s room and surrounded Sister Benedicta, uttering little words of sympathy and admiration, stroking Lyra’s head. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Over the gray waste of water Malcolm paddled all the next day while Lyra cried fretfully and Alice lay indifferently in the bow. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Lyra had asked the question expecting the answer No, in fact, for Mrs. Coulter had such an air of glamour that Lyra was entranced. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “Here, Lyra! You’re not to go out again this evening. Master’s orders.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z And Lyra thrilled at those times with the same deep thrill she’d felt all her life on hearing the word North. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “No,” said Lyra, “except that it was by a river.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra was so close to Iorek that she could feel a trembling in him like a great dynamo, generating mighty anbaric forces. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The first Lyra heard of it was when a young boy went missing from a gyptian family she knew. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra, looking at Will, thought that if he fell in love, he would be like that. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z A few paces further on there was a little clearing, where Alice was sitting on a fallen tree trunk with Lyra, who was fast asleep on her lap. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “I don’t need an alethiometer for that. Now I want to hear about your journey here, Lyra. Start from the beginning. Tell me everything.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “Friends, be brave! Stay together and keep going! The way is hard, but Lyra can find it. Be patient and cheerful and we’ll lead you out, don’t fear!” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra saw the old man standing doubtfully in the doorway, and behind him, the corner of a large wooden box. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “You’re going to have to tie my bandage again,” he said to Lyra. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Will and Lyra slept through the night and woke up when the sun struck their eyelids. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “Lyra. I don’t know why they didn’t give her a good saint’s name.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Lyra saw it not as abiding place but as a highway. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z He turned and lurched away, padding so swiftly across the freezing ground that Lyra couldn’t keep up, even running. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z She was lying unconscious with her arms around Lyra. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “Listen,” Mary said reluctantly, and told Lyra about the man she’d seen the night before. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The grownups were wary but willing to sell some bread and cheese and fruit for one of Lyra’s gold coins. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z They couldn’t just paddle away, because this was the only land they’d seen, and it was dark, and out there on the water was the CCD boat, and Lyra needed food and warmth now. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z And there was another consideration: whoever seized Lyra first would have to fight their way out against the other force. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z So he knew that he was safe, and that Lyra was safe in the priory, and that Lord Asriel was safe because he’d escaped his pursuers; but there was danger all around, just the same. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Naturally Lyra was eager to fly with him, and naturally it was forbidden; but she rode with him on the way there and pestered him with questions. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “Can’t you see I’m a paying you a compliment, you gosling?” she said, and Lyra was pacified, though she didn’t understand. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Next morning Lyra woke up from a dream in which Pantalaimon had come back to her and revealed his final shape; and she had loved it, but now she had no idea what it was. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “Certainly, Doctor. Come with me, dear,” said the nurse, and Lyra obediently followed. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “I hope you’ll sit next to me at dinner,” said Mrs. Coulter, making room for Lyra on the sofa. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z You could not trick a bear, but, as Lyra had shown him, Iofur did not want to be a bear, he wanted to be a man; and Iorek was tricking him. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z He looked at Will first, and then at Lyra, and his expression changed a little. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z At least Lyra didn’t have to try; she was unconscious in less than a minute, curled tightly around Pantalaimon, but Will couldn’t find sleep, no matter how long he lay there. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Lyra was too sulky even to ask why she was having to wash and dress, and no grownup ever gave reasons of their own accord. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra waited till she was sure he was asleep, and then took the dishes into the kitchen and ran them under the tap, rubbing hard with a cloth until they looked clean. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Will had last seen that face, contorted with hate, on the evening when he and Lyra stole the alethiometer back from Sir Charles Latrom in the house in Oxford. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z As the years passed, Lanre and Lyra fought side by side. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “Excuse me,” said Lyra, stepping forward in her best polite way, as if the housekeeper of Jordan College were glaring at her. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “It’s this way,” said Lyra, tugging at Will’s hand. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Will clutched at Lyra and they both clung together as the scream turned into wild, mocking peals of laughter, which were answered by other harpy voices in the fog along the shore. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Then he soared up into the cold air and glided out over the valley as Will began to search for a world where Lyra would be safe. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “What world do you come from?” said Lyra. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Malcolm held Lyra away from his chest, as if to give her to the man, and Bonneville held out his right arm, as if to take her. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The first thing Will did was to make Lyra sit down, and then he took out the little pot of bloodmoss ointment and looked at the wound on her head. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Changing his angle and looking closer, he saw the rock behind which Lyra was lying. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The needle darted swiftly left and right, and left and left, and Lyra felt her mind dart to the meanings and land on them as lightly as a bird. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Audrey was trying to shelter Lyra, turning away, trying to move back into the cave, and Mr. Boatwright was trying to help her, and Lyra was screaming in fear. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Lyra nearly blazed with hatred, and Pantalaimon in her arms became a polecat, the most ugly and vicious of all his forms, and snarled. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Will and Lyra were both trembling and weak with fear, exhaustion, nausea, and pain, but giving up was inconceivable. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z After a while Lyra said, “You will keep the knife, won’t you? So you could visit my world?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The only notion Lyra had of the search for her was the incessant drone of the gas engines of airships crisscrossing the skies. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z He wanted to speak quietly to Lyra, but not till he could see the Gallivespians and know he wasn’t being overheard. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “All right,” said Lyra, quite happy to be moving again, with Pan and Will, alive and awake. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The witch’s daemon gave a cry of anger, and Lyra clutched Pantalaimon to her and said, “Don’t look! Don’t look!” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Three hundred years ago in Lyra’s world, someone invented the alethiometer. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Her little dæmon scampered up and down to avoid touching Malcolm, but Lyra herself was intrigued by this change of perspective and gazed calmly around, and then focused her eyes on Malcolm himself. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “I don’t think mine is,” said Lyra doubtfully. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The dragonfly shine was getting dimmer by the minute, and Lyra knew it would soon be completely gone. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z From her hiding place Lyra watched the Master's eyes, and indeed, they flicked toward the table for a second, where the Tokay had been. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra stood back to give Will room, and the old man came to stand beside him. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Pantalaimon tried to be a snake like the other two, but gave up after half a minute and became a mouse instead, and cuddled close against Lyra’s neck. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z But the dark-uniformed men were gone, and Lyra was gone with them. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Lyra was afraid that the Lady Salmakia was dying: she hadn’t uttered a word for several minutes, and she lay faint and limp in Lyra’s hand. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “Will,” said Lyra behind him, “Will, look at this...” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra worked quickly, and within a few minutes every daemon was free. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Coulter ordered most of the clothes packed up and delivered, and took one or two things with her when she and Lyra walked back to the flat Then a bath, with thick scented foam. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z They all contributed items of clothing to bulk out Lyra’s bed and make it look as if she was still there, and swore to say they knew nothing about it. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z They were more willing to show themselves to the corners of his eye, and when he said so to Lyra, she said, “It’s negative capability.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra urged the children on and out into the darkness beyond the lights. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “Of course, and Lyra is their child....Serafina Pekkala, if I had borne his child, what a witch she would be! A queen of queens!” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t think he’s dead,” said Lyra, but she was far from sure. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra looked up and held out her hand for the dragonfly. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He leapt for the door, clasping Lyra tight. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Then Angelica seemed to feel Lyra watching her, and she looked up. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “En’t the grownups going to come back at all?” said Lyra. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The Master stood up to look, blocking Lyra’s view. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “What we going to do?” said Alice, settling herself into the bow with Lyra on her lap. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Lyra felt Pantalaimon tremble suddenly, but he was on his best behavior. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra was afraid he’d fire his rifle by mistake, but as soon as he’d spoken he hastened inside his house and shut the door. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra turned around, knowing what she’d see and dreading it despite her bravado. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Then her mother took a comb and gently teased out the tangles in Lyra’s hair, smoothing it back from her forehead, parting it neatly. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He stood up and went to look at Lyra, finding her comfortable enough on the floor with a biscuit in her fist. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z As she spoke, Will came to join them, and both he and Lyra listened, wide-eyed and serious. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z But he was still asleep, with the cat curled up at his feet, and Lyra was impatient to see her Scholar again. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z In the days that followed, Lyra went everywhere with Mrs. Coulter, almost as if she were a daemon herself. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra and her daemon moved through the darkening hall, taking care to keep to one side, out of sight of the kitchen. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Now that Lyra had a task in mind, she felt much better. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Will put down the package of food; Lyra put down her little rucksack. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra could hear faint cries of pain and misery. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Five minutes later Lyra was knocking on the door of the Master’s lodging, the grand and slightly gloomy house that opened into the Yaxley Quadrangle and backed onto the Library Garden. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Outside the largest of the concrete sheds the great bear was working, and Lyra stood by the open gate to watch. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z A great puzzlement was slowing Lyra’s heartbeat and making the room very still. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Lyra could see them glinting; they were real. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra strained her eyes to look ahead, but not even Pantalaimon’s owl eyes could see any movement on the flank of the mountain they were climbing. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z More corridors, and Lyra was tired by now, so sleepy she kept yawning and could hardly lift her feet in the woolly slippers they’d given her. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Someone could tell their kid that Lyra was there and the kid might be a member and he’d give her away.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z He was standing stock-still now, and Lyra slipped off his back, knowing that his senses needed to cast around freely. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “Now you sit down,” she said, and pulled out a chair for Lyra. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Once again Lyra went into the empty room and consulted the alethiometer before returning with the answer. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The man had reached his knife again, but he didn’t have time to pull it out of the lead before Lyra leaped onto his back, scratching, kicking, biting like a wildcat. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Are there any soldiers in the village?” he said to Lyra. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z One of Lyra’s brat companions picked up a stone automatically when he heard the commotion, but Lyra said, “Put it down. She’s in a temper. She could snap your backbone like a twig.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “I want you to tell me about Dust,” said Lyra, having looked around to make sure they were alone. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The man hauled Lyra up to a sitting position and propped her against the side of the sledge. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z It was dark, with an enfolding blackness that pressed on Lyra’s eyes so heavily that she almost felt the weight of the thousands of tons of rock above them. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z In Lyra’s heart, revulsion struggled with compassion, and compassion won. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra went on sucking and munching at her toast, unaware of anything wrong. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z He looked around, but Alice was in the other room washing Lyra. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Then the witch turned to Will, and he felt the same tingle of intensity, but like Lyra he controlled his expression. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z And while the man was dressing the wound, Lyra felt Pantalaimon calling to her silently to come and look out the window. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Lyra stopped beside the Master’s chair and flicked the biggest glass gently with a fingernail. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z On Lyra’s other side Mrs. Coulter sat working through some papers, but she soon put them away and talked. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z He got a candle lit, and Asta flew back to him, for the little flame itself was enough to distract Lyra. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z And still the canoe floated on, and still Lyra slept, and still they felt no hunger. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Horrible fear filled Lyra’s body, and Pantalaimon nestled close against her. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z And Will looked from them to Lyra’s rucksack and back again, and he didn’t hear a word they said. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Lyra had been told that she was small for her age, whatever that meant. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “It must have been Andrew. I had to use our real names ’cause Mr. Boatwright knows who we are, but I should have called Lyra something else. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The coffin lid burned well, and there was enough of it to warm Lyra’s milk, but only just. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Lyra led the way, avoiding the city center, and Will kept watch all around, saying nothing. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Malcolm could hear Lyra crying, not with shrill fear but with a steady note of complaint at the cold and the wet and the incessant lurching of the canoe. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z In spite of what Lyra had said, Will kept his hand on the knife. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Malcolm wiped his right hand across his eyes and saw Alice trying to hold Lyra away from the hands that reached down, and he screamed, “Alice! It’s all right! Pass her up!” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Lyra is traditionally associated with the Greek musician Orpheus, though it is also sometimes referred to as King Arthur’s Harp. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Lyra could see that they were powerfully intrigued by the wooden case, the screen, and the lantern. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra wasn’t sure what he meant, but she didn’t want to press him. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Lyra was lighter than the rucksack but awkwarder, because the rucksack’s weight was taken on the shoulders, whereas carrying Lyra, Malcolm soon remembered, involved both arms. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z While he and Lyra lay down where they were, exhausted, the Lady Salmakia kept watch, and the Chevalier opened his lodestone resonator and began to play a message into the dark. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z But the mouse was separate; there was something of Lyra in his expression, but something else too. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z But Pantalaimon was trembling and shivering, and nothing Lyra could do could soothe him into stillness, or quiet the soft little moan he couldn’t help uttering. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He went outside and found Lyra standing still, weeping, with Pantalaimon as a wolf raising his face to the black sky. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra could tell that the atmosphere had changed. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The second piece of the blade was heating, too, and Lyra’s leafy branch sent the hot gas along to bathe both pieces in its flow and keep out the iron-eating air. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra realized that she would be able to see the screen and whatever was on it through the crack in the door, and wondered whether her uncle had arranged it like that for the purpose. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “Our task now is to help Lyra, and her task is to guide Will to his father. You should fly back, agreed, but we must stay with Lyra.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Take Lyra, then, and I’ll hide the canoe a bit more,” he said, handing over the child. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “Lyra wants to come a little way into my Oxford,” Mary said. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra looked too, and fell back in disappointment. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Lyra looked all around, with immense caution, but the street was empty. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z As for what experimental theology was, Lyra had no more idea than the urchins. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Then a telephone buzzed, and while the nurse answered it, Lyra stooped quickly to recover the other tin, the one containing the spy-fly, and put it in the pouch with file alethiometer. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra walked delicately through it all, her senses magnified and mingled with Pantalaimon’s, keeping to the shadows and the narrow alleys. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, just up past these shops. I can walk from there,” said Lyra. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Salmakia flew back up to her companion, and together they sped back to Lyra. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z So Lyra opened the door and found Iofur Raknison waiting for her, with an expression of triumph, slyness, apprehension, and greed. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra was scrambling toward the man from behind, with the loose rope in her hand. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z But there was no need to worry about Lyra, he thought. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Mrs. Coulter pulled the belt away from Lyra’s waist and unbuttoned the pouch. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra saw sparks flying up from some of the bears’ armor, and saw them huddle over beneath its protection, before she heard the rattle of the bullets. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z As darkness fell, he heard Lyra come to lie down close by, and presently he heard a soft purring. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Because Lyra had it, and I want to find her.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z At some point Lyra and the others became aware that there was some kind of subdued emergency going on, because the adults were hurrying to and fro or standing in anxious groups talking urgently. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The Chevalier looked down on the slow-moving millions on the floor of the land of the dead, all drifting after that bright and living spark Lyra Silvertongue. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Will and Lyra, both of them sick and full of pain, tried to stand upright and face her. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Wearily Lyra sighed; she had forgotten how roundabout Scholars could be. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z How wearily Lyra turned the wheels; on what leaden feet her thoughts moved. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra had stopped crying, thanks to the biscuit, and was dozing in Alice’s arms. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z When Lyra heard the woman’s harsh tone, her face crumpled, her dæmon burrowed his face into her neck, and she began to cry quietly. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “We came through by accident,” Lyra told him before Will could speak. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Mrs. Coulter smiled at Lyra in a way that seemed to say, “You and I understand these things, don’t we?” and moved on to greet some other guests. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra waited and sat still, and presently he went on. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Lyra slipped out of the anorak, the leggings, and the boots and bundled them up as small as she could before shoving through the crowded corridors to her dormitory. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Standing on the floor of this huge space were adults and children—ghost people—so many that Lyra couldn’t guess their number. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z So Lyra’s life had been, before the day when she decided to hide in the Retiring Room, and first heard about Dust. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z It repeated the sequence time after time, while Lyra watched. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “Now you tell us what you was doing in London, Lyra. We had you down as being took by the Gobblers.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The van driver was addressing Will, who was on his knees beside Lyra. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He was mad, and no wonder, poor old man; but he might have some scraps of information that Lyra could use. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z At her neck Pantalaimon lay in his polecat shape, his fur glistening, and Lyra’s hair lay damp across her forehead. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra was busy looking at all the life in the forest, from woodpeckers to squirrels to little green moss snakes with diamonds down their backs, and Will needed all his energy simply to keep going. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z But in the middle of the Aurora, high above the bleak landscape, Lyra could see something solid. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “Lyra,” said Tialys, “against every instinct, we’ll go with you. I was angry with you a minute ago. But you make it hard...” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z It wasn’t long before Rondon and Lyra arrived at the camp. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z They were taken one by one to a laboratory, and of course this made them all very frightened; how cruel it would be, Lyra thought, if she perished without striking a blow at them! The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z So Lyra held still, supporting one arm with the other, and the blue hawk wheeled and turned and swooped again, to seize her knuckles in sharp claws. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Vega is the brightest star in the constellation Lyra, and the third brightest star in the northern hemisphere. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Lyra’s first glimpse of her father’s prison came when Iorek Byrnison stopped at the foot of a ridge for the children to move and stretch themselves, because they had been getting dangerously cold and stiff. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “Yes,” said Lyra, lying earnestly, “oh yes, we’ll do that then all right.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The bears were curious, but restrained by their respect for Iorek Byrnison, and his for Lyra, and she put them out of her mind and sank again into the alethiometric trance. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra ran and embraced her, and the woman hugged her tight, and Will stood back, careful and doubtful. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra stuck close to him on the jetty, because there was a crowd gathering already, whispering and pointing. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “It’s all right, Lyra,” Malcolm said, “you know who we are. What a racket! I should think they can hear you all the way across the river and into the Trout.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Will took out the knife, but Lyra, sitting on the grass beside him, was already turning the hands of the alethiometer. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z She looked down where he was pointing at the sleeping Lyra, the sleeping Alice. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z And she said no more, handing Lyra a cup of milk when it was ready, swinging herself up on deck when the boat began to move, exchanging occasional whispers with the men. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “No, it’s not. The people who gave it to me want me to ask about Lyra, among other things.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z She thought, and finally said, “He might not be dead. We can’t be sure. We didn’t want to kill him. That wasn’t the plan at all. We were just defending Lyra. En’t that right?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “Yes, do,” said Lyra, “but fly low, and hide, and don’t let them see you.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The little grassy glade was clearly illuminated, and right in the middle of it sat Diania, bare-shouldered, bare-breasted, with Lyra sucking vigorously at her right nipple. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “But they were cutting—” Lyra couldn’t bring herself to say it; the words choked in her mouth. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The dragonflies returned with their riders to the children, and Pantalaimon crept into Lyra’s breast as she and Will moved closer together, treading carefully along the slimy path. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The temperature dropped quickly after dark, and when Will and Lyra had eaten the last of their dry bread, they lay down under an overhanging rock to keep warm and try to sleep. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Pantalaimon fled to Lyra at once, and she scooped him up to her face to kiss and gentle. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z And Lyra realized with a jolt of sickness what was happening: the man was being attacked by Specters. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Lyra too lay down, with Pantalaimon curled at her neck, and watched the fire through half-closed lids, and listened sleepily to the murmur of the witches. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Its black tongue flicked this way, that way, and its mailed head with its gold-rimmed black eyes moved from Lyra to Will and back again. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He was hoping she wouldn’t ask where he lived, in case she knew where Lyra was and made the connection; but hadn’t they said she had no interest in the child? The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z So Lyra clung to Pantalaimon and her head swam and her gorge rose, and cold as the night was, a sickly sweat moistened her flesh with something colder still. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z And Lyra slept on, calm and silent and still. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Lyra wanted to ask all kinds of questions, but suddenly she felt shy of this massive man, with his little eyes so sharp and kindly among their folds and wrinkles. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “But excuse me, sir,” said Lyra, “I hope you don’t mind me asking, but how can we have come this far if we en’t dead? Because this is the world of the dead, isn’t it?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z At Lyra’s question the woman ran a hand through her hair and said, “Well, you’re the second unexpected thing that’s happened today. I’m Dr. Mary Malone. What do you want?” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Pantalaimon changed from a goldfinch to a mouse and ran up Lyra’s arm to the pocket of her shirt. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The woman in the corridor was young and dressed very smartly, and she tried to smile when Lyra came out but her eyes remained hard and suspicious. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Boatwright was walking up and down, showing Lyra to the people who were just waking, and someone else was attending to the chicken, gutting it and jointing it and sprinkling it with flour. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Here and there a light flickered under a snow-thick roof, and Lyra thought she saw pale faces behind some of the windowpanes, and imagined their astonishment to see a child riding a great white bear. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra had no idea how tired she was until they caught up with the gyptians. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra contented herself with clinging to the rim of the basket, just under her chin when she was standing, and peering wide-eyed into the swirling cloud. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, Lyra was looking for somewhere quiet to consult the alethiometer. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Lyra obeyed, half happy, half apprehensive, for Ma Costa had hands like bludgeons, and now she was sure: it was their boat she had captured with Roger and the other collegers. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z She was Roger’s Lyra, full of grace and daring; she didn’t need to creep along like an insect. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The two of them sat in silence for a while, Lyra uncomfortable on the hard floor of the wardrobe and Pantalaimon self-righteously twitching his temporary antennae on one of the robes. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra took the glass to stop it from falling as Will gasped. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z In the dimness, he could see the witches who had been guarding Lyra all sitting or standing still. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z So Lyra took a deep breath and began. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps he and Mrs. Coulter would fall in love, and they would get married and adopt Lyra, and go and rescue Roger from the Gobblers. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “The way you have,” Lyra said, “is it possible for us to learn?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Alice opened Lyra’s garments, mopped her clean, dried her easily in the warm air. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Lyra said, “We wanted to look down in the crypt.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z They had been traveling for an hour or more, and Lyra was stiff and sore but deeply happy, when Iorek Byrnison slowed down and stopped. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra saw with a cold thrill that Will was perfectly ready to dash the Gallivespian’s head against the rock. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “We got to—” He tried to swallow a lump of bread, and then retrieved it and chewed it a bit more before trying again and continuing hoarsely, “We’ve got to rescue Lyra.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Little by little, Lyra drifted into that trance in which the many layers of meaning were clear to her, and where she could sense intricate webs of connectedness between them all. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z And he found himself gasping and shaking and crying aloud with more anger and pain than he had ever felt in his life, and he found Lyra just as helpless in his arms. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z She began just before she first met Lyra, telling them about the work she was doing at the Dark Matter Research group, and the funding crisis. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra couldn’t see Pantalaimon, but she knew his moth form was resting on her shoulder and probably shivering too. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z There was little daylight in any case, but Lyra did look, and found herself standing in front of a vast building of stone. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “One day,” said the harpy, “I will see you again, Lyra Silvertongue.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Will looked back through the window at Lyra, and saw her face, moonlit and wide-eyed with fear, biting her lip to keep silent and straining to hear, as he was. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Lyra clenched herself, but relaxed almost at once as Pantalaimon thought to her: We’re only safe as long as we pretend. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The journey lasted longer than Lyra wanted to measure. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “Yes, that’s true,” she said, and they moved up the slope, Will carrying his rucksack and Lyra happily carrying the little bag she kept the alethiometer in. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra left his side and walked across the combat ground, bare and clear as it was, leaving her little footprints in the snow, and the bears on the far side parted to let her through. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The branch caught at once, and in its glare Lyra turned the hands of the alethiometer and asked about Lee Scoresby. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Mary, distressed, said, “How can we tell Lyra?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z It was broken by the fall, and an arrow protruded from its side, but still it lurched up and lunged with a flopping malice at Lyra. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Lyra thought they walked for half an hour, or maybe it was twice as long; the look of the place didn’t change. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Every witch there knew what had happened next, and neither Will nor Lyra dreamed of it. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Bomb?” said Lyra, frightened; but then she said, “Roger—are you there?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra was keen to know more about the witches, but the men had turned their talk to the matter of fuel and stores, and presently she grew impatient to see the rest of the ship. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra watched with aching eyes as Will took the knife and began to search the air, touching, withdrawing, searching, touching again. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Will rummaged in the rucksack for the water bottle and a couple of biscuits, and handing one to Lyra, he went with her up the slope of the dune. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra was crying steadily, a quiet lament of unhappiness. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “Oh,” said Lyra, with a heavy despair in her breast. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Pantalaimon sat up and blinked, and then there was a soft thud, and the net man fell choking and gasping right across Lyra, who cried out in horror, that was blood gushing out of him! The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z And Lyra stirred and in her sleep uttered a little whimpering mew, which Alice quickly muffled. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z She was clutching Lyra tight, trying to peer through the murk, and Malcolm was shakily sitting down. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z No one looked at Bridget McGinn except Lyra, and she saw the blond girl’s face vivid with fear. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “They’re making too much noise to hear from the kitchen,” Lyra whispered back. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra always enjoyed the horse fair; as well as the chance of stealing a ride on a less-than-well-attended horse, there were endless opportunities for provoking warfare. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The word female only suggested female Scholars to Lyra, and she involuntarily made a face. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra heard the snap of metal clips and a hiss as air rushed into a vessel, and then there was a silence. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, the ghosts were pressing close, poor things, and the children especially couldn’t leave Lyra alone. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra had put the alethiometer in her rucksack and was wondering how she could get away. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It clung to his lapel, staring round-eyed at Lyra. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Among all the other activities, desperate and urgent as they all were, the two sides that were searching for Malcolm and Lyra made their way steadily downstream towards the capital city. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Lyra stood up shakily, holding the wildcat Pantalaimon to her breast. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “Suppose we do nothing, and he gets hold of Lyra?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z As Lyra saw the little black shapes sweeping out of the blue, she cheered and shouted with glee. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “I thought it was just what he’d been eating. I took it out his hand because I thought it was more respectful. That’s all, Lyra.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “What is them Gobblers?” said Simon Parslow, one of Lyra’s companions. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra stepped closer to Will when the man said I’m dead, and Pantalaimon fled to her breast as a mouse. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Asta was impatient to go and see to Pan, so they moved up to sit on the grass beside Lyra, exhausted, shaking, and looked around. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Lyra nodded and said, ‘‘Yes, I will, but I’m not as strong as I used to be, and I’m not brave, not very anyway. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He longed to know what she looked like, because Lyra had never described her, and the face that went with this voice must be remarkable. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Will had been looking at him, eager to see this old companion of Lyra’s; but now his eyes went right past Lee to look at the ghost beside him. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z However, Lyra’s eyes were keen, and she fumbled inside her furs and tugged out the black velvet bag. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z He stretched out in one of the armchairs, so that Lyra could no longer see his face. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra watched Will tending this one with fascination. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Keep close,” he called to Lyra, and then cried out as a bramble sliced across his cheek. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z While he was gone, Lyra wandered around the village, not looking too closely at anything in case she broke some code of politeness, but curious about everything she saw. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z And then Lyra began to feel truly nervous. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra’s father stood there, his powerful dark-eyed face at first fierce, triumphant, and eager; and then the color faded from it; his eyes widened, in horror, as he recognized his daughter. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Will and Lyra followed the stream into the wood, walking carefully, saying little, until they were in the very center. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra shrank to the ground at once, covering her ears, and Will, knife in hand, crouched over her. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He put the letters in his pocket and stood up, and almost at once Lyra was there, wild-eyed, with Pantalaimon a snarling savage wildcat, too distraught to hide. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Lyra felt a flicker of a thought at the edge of her mind, and turned to the screen. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Lyra checked the alethiometer: Keep going, it said; this is the right direction. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The man pulled back Lyra’s blanket to look at her face, and put the back of his fingers against her forehead. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z When Lyra thought of his lithe golden shape, she felt ill with fear. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The Gallivespians flew back, having gone a little way, and perched on the children’s shoulders as before, she on Lyra, he on Will. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z And now it simply wasn’t there, and she wasn’t Lyra of Jordan anymore; she was a lost little girl in a strange world, belonging nowhere. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Lyra suddenly understood the Master’s curious behavior on the morning she’d left. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra’s uncle moved across to the fire and stretched his arms high above his head, yawning like a lion. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z All around men turned their heads, because the bloody field was less horrible to look upon than Lyra’s grief. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Inside her shirt Pantalaimon was shivering and whispering, “No, no, Lyra, no, go away, let’s go back, please...” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra peered ahead, steaming her eyes, and Pantalaimon flew as high as he could and looked with an owl’s clear vision. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z To abandon her and live with Lyra, even for the few years they’d have together—could he do that? The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z How long it took, neither Lyra nor Will could guess; how fearful and dangerous it was, they were never able to forget. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Another hour, and most of the valley was in shadow, and Will was wondering whether they would find any shelter before night fell; but then Lyra gave a cry of relief and joy. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z It was a tiny woman, no bigger than Lyra’s hand, and the monkey was already pulling and pulling at one of her arms so that she cried out in pain. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra had taken to wearing a little white leather shoulder bag everywhere, so as to keep the alethiometer close at hand. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Malcolm thought she might die, and he wanted to do something immediately to save her life, but he didn’t know what he could do; and in any case there was Lyra.... The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Pantalaimon seemed to accept the attention as Lyra’s due, and presently he curled up again and closed his eyes. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m a member of Dame Hannah’s college, but most of my work takes place outside Oxford. Tell me about yourself, Lyra. Have you always lived at Jordan College?” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Beyond him Lyra could see the other men around the table, with bags of gold stacked neatly, and papers and pens, and glasses and a crock of jenniver. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra lay wrapped up as tightly as a mummy, fast asleep, and Pan lay coiled around her neck as a little green snake. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “I just came here to see Dr. Malone,” Lyra said. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The noise was appalling: over every other sound there came the shrieking of the cliff-ghasts, and Lyra saw them hurtling past, and smelled their foul stench. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z A few moments after she had gone, Lyra gave a little gasp. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “Scoundrel! Thief! Blackguard! Rogue!” shouted the old man, and he shook so violently that Lyra was afraid he’d have a fit. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Alice had propped herself inside the bow, with her knees up over the front seat, so as to make her body and arms a cradle for Lyra. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z At the moment, however, they were a long way apart—as far as Lyra had had to travel from her Oxford to Cittàgazze. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He had been watching Lyra for some minutes. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Lyra got up and felt her way to the door. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z And as soon as he said it, Will realized that the snake he’d seen concealed in the man’s sleeve was a dæmon too, and that Sir Charles must come from Lyra’s world. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The Master’s manservant, Cousins, was still in place, however, and Lyra had been ready to meet his hostility with defiance, for they had been enemies as long as she could remember. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z She had seen Lyra herself now—had even held her—and so she realized what it would have meant for the nuns to be deprived of her. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Lyra herded them onward, wondering how the aeronaut had got his balloon that far. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z And getting Lyra out of that big white priory...” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z It was a sensation of such grace and power that Lyra, sharing it, felt like a young bird learning to fly. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra wept brokenly and touched his face with trembling hands. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “We met an angel. She told us all about that, and other things as well. It’s true, Lyra.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The man who seemed to be in charge, the man who wasn’t holding either Lyra or Pantalaimon, tapped his teeth with a thumbnail. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z She bent down to touch Lyra’s forehead, but the child was fast asleep, with no fever. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z He had seized Lyra’s daemon in his human hands, and poor Pan was shaking, nearly out of his mind with horror and disgust. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra was crying, and Asta was trying to comfort Pan, but the little ferret wouldn’t be comforted and burrowed closer around Lyra’s neck, only irritating her further. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z In the sudden silence, Lyra began to cry. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z And Lyra began to talk about the world she knew. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “I am a friend of Lyra’s,” she said. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z So that bear retreated to consult the bear above him, and before long Lyra was ushered inside the palace again, but into the state quarters this time. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z He bounded past Lyra almost in a blur and crashed into the Tartars, scattering soldiers, daemons, rifles to all sides. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z He pulled at Lyra’s hand, and as the dragonfly rider darted close to his head, urging them to hurry, he led her at a crouching run down the path and away from the cave. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He was so astonished that Lyra stopped crying at once to see what was happening, and that made Malcolm laugh, and that made Lyra laugh too, her eyes brilliant with tears. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z While Iorek gave commands and organized an armed squad to accompany them on the final part of their journey north, Lyra sat still, conserving her energy. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Out of love for Lyra, Lanre had sought knowledge where knowledge is better left alone, and gained it at a terrible price. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Lyra was reminded, as she always was when she saw him again, of how much he frightened her. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The next child was the right size and coloring, but she wasn’t Lyra. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z All this Lyra saw by starlight alone; but then, as Lord Asriel connected his wires, the Aurora blazed all of a sudden into brilliant life. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z At lunchtime, when the children were lining up once again in the canteen, Lyra felt Pantalaimon give a chirrup of recognition, and turned to find Billy Costa standing just behind her. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra could see the intensity in his body, saw his jaw working, and then saw an authority descend over it, calming and relaxing and clarifying. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Lyra longed to help her dear friend, but what could she do? The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “Come on,” said Will to Lyra, and they splashed through the icy, bone-aching water and scrambled up the far side of the gully just in time. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z They settled themselves in the boat, having checked that Alice and Lyra were safe and comfortable, and they fell asleep in a moment. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Her eyes grew wider, more full of horror, or loathing, and she didn’t seem to be aware of him or of Lyra anymore, just of that insistent whisper through the coal silk at her side. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “Thank you, Lady! Thank you all!” said Lyra, and the hawk took wing. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “All right, Lyra, hush, gal,” she whispered, and settled on the cold earth floor with her back against the wall. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z And before Will and Lyra could stop and run the other way, they had stumbled right into the middle of the troop. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra had unfastened her furs, but now the cold was striking in again and she had to do them up. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Pantalaimon was a cricket now, and sat on Lyra’s shoulder, too tired to leap or fly. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z In the meantime, he and Lyra surveyed the newly discovered river. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Lyra will somehow, sometime soon, be tempted, as Eve was—that’s what they say. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “Dunno. Just looking,” said Lyra, and led the way to a squat, square building a little apart from the rest, with a low-powered anbaric light at the corner. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “You have to promise to believe me,” Lyra said seriously. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra did, more slowly than she’d told the Costas but more honestly, too. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra stretched and yawned, and Will felt a great weight lift off his shoulders. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z When it had completed the movements several times, Lyra looked up. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “You got to tie something around his arm,” Lyra said, “to stop the bleeding. It won’t stop otherwise.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The Lady Salmakia flicked the rein, and her dragonfly skimmed away from Lyra’s shoulder to land on the gunwale of the boat, where Tialys joined her. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “Can you heal him?” said Lyra, her voice desperate. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Lyra trembled at the weight of Arose blows. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra felt a blush from the roots of her hair to the soles of her feet; Pantalaimon became a brown moth to hide. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Clutching Lyra close with one arm, holding Alice’s hand with the other hand, he scrambled along the wall of the pub to the back door. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “Lyra came here,” he said quietly to the snow leopard. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z His motion was now so much a part of Lyra’s being that to sit balanced was entirely automatic. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z He sat up carefully and saw a fire burning not far away, where Lyra was trying to toast some bread on a forked stick. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of the ghost people were looking up apprehensively, but more of them were staring at Will and Lyra, and then they began to crowd forward. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “Have you got the symbol reader?” said the witch, in a voice so like the high wild singing of the Aurora itself that Lyra could hardly hear the sense for the sweet sound of it. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra, soothing Pantalaimon, glanced at Will and saw that he knew what it meant: the medicine was ready. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “No, the great pity is that although Lyra possesses the alethiometer itself, there’s no means of reading it whatsoever,” he said. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Then the bear turned over a small stone on the floor and told Lyra to find some more stones of the same kind. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The woman and the van driver had realized that their argument ought to be handled by their insurance companies and were exchanging addresses when the woman saw Will helping Lyra to limp away. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z As soon as Angelica and the little boy had vanished, Pantalaimon appeared from Lyra’s pocket, his mouse head ruffled and bright-eyed. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Will,” said Lyra, and he turned to see that there was another figure in the kitchen with them. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lyra’s possessions, such as they were, had been packed ever since she’d woken up and seen the land. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra sat up and hugged her knees, listening closely. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z But even in the fullness of his hard-won power, he could not call Lyra back. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z And on Lyra’s shoulder, and on Will’s, rode the two Gallivespians. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Pan, no longer a mole but now a rabbit, emerged from the blankets, very close to Lyra, for safety, but very curious. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “What you want?” she said, holding Lyra in her arms; the child was nearly asleep. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Lyra—over Roger’s fervent protests—picked out the oldest, twistiest, greenest bottle she could find, and, not having anything to extract the cork with, broke it off at the neck. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Weary and scared, Lyra began to stumble over the harsh and slippery rocks, following the bear, wondering how she could talk her way out of this. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Something nudged her foot, and a strange bear voice said, “Lyra Silvertongue, the king wants you.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “Did they ever call it anything else, Lyra?” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra knew one of them, a sixteen-year-old she admired because he could spit further than anyone else she’d ever heard of, and she went and waited humbly for him to notice her. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The next two weeks passed more busily than any time of Lyra’s life so far. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Lyra cried out in alarm, and then in fear and pain, as Pantalaimon twisted this way and that, shrieking and snarling, unable to loosen the golden monkey’s grip. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z |
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