Fencing
While Lyra was in a state of shock, she thought how the poor child was. A human being without a demon was like a ghost. Suddenly the child started speaking. He asked her where Ratter was. She thought Ratter might have been his demon. She tried to explain about the Gobblers to him but she couldn’t because of her inner sorrow for him. She couldn’t imagine how she would feel, if her demon were cut away from her. Anyway she made him calm down as quickly as she could and came back with him to the sledges.
By the time, she arrived at the gyptians’ camp, she was too exhausted to do anything. She told Iorek Byrinison to pass the word to John Faa and then fell asleep. As Iorek Byrnison informed John Faa what had happened, he scolded him for the fact that he wasn’t as brave as the little girl. He couldn’t find any word to say to apologize.
Lyra had slept for hours and when she woke up, she heard that the boy was going to be cremated because the ground was to solid to bury him. After that, she ran out to see the boy before he was cremated. She imagined the last moment she had seen him. However, she discovered he didn’t have his fish. So she asked the gyptians, who were around her, for that. Unfortunately, they replied they had given if to their dogs,which made her furious. So she wrote the name of the boy’s demon on a gold coin and put it in his mouth like the dead scholars in Jordan College’s crypt.
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