TWENTY-THREE - THE BRIDGE TO THE STARS-1
ifty yards aarliging toget led to urned sledge, on teries and jars and pieces of apparatus, already frosted als of cold. ed by tiful spotted coat glossy ail moving lazily in the snow.
In h she held Rogers daemon.
ttle creature ruggling, flapping, fig a bird, t a dog, t, a rat, a bird again, and calling every moment to Roger raining, trying to pull a t-deep tug, and crying out o Lord Asriel and plucked ried again, crying and pleading, begging, sobbing, and Lord Asriel took no notice except to knock o the ground.
t a able dark. t or more above the frozen sea.
All tarlig ted o brilliant life. Like t plays beterminals, except t ten ting, gloaract of glory.
rolling it...
Or leading po; for t ran directly upo t for a cc o ts.
And the Aurora was blazing again.
he was nearly ready.
urned to Roger and beckoned, and Roger helplessly going forward.
“No! Run!” Lyra cried, and him.
Pantalaimon leaped at tc ter alaimon let turned and battled spotted beast.
S-riging oo; or figurbid air, tentions, t came treams of Dust—
And ts continual surging flicker picking out no lake, no rorees, so close youd t you could step from to t.
Lyra leaped up and seized Rogers hand.
Sore aed, because again, in toion, and tried to stop—
But t stop.
them.
An entire shelf of snow, sliding inexorably down—
t below—
“LYRA!”
beats, leaping in anguish Rogers—
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