quot;Let me see t; said Iorek Byrnison. quot;I understand metal. Noteel is a mystery to a bear. But I o look at it closely.quot;

    ill and teamer, in tting sun, and t progress upstream; ty of fuel on board, t ill could eat, and aking taken t already.

    ill  toook it from ely. ting e objects as skillfully as a urned t, bringing it closely to  to catc, testing teel edge, on a piece of scrap iron.

    quot;t my armor ; ;trange. I cannot tell  is,   I  to understand it. o possess it?quot;

    ill told  of w  only w concerned her.

    quot;You foug t; t;S;

    ill  o ment, t till very tender. t them.

    quot;Bloodmoss,quot; ;And somet identify. ?quot;

    quot;A man  in a  cured my cried, but t ;

    quot;And o do ; said Iorek Byrnison,  carefully back to ill.

    quot;to use it in a ; ill replied. quot;But first I must rescue Lyra Silvertongue.quot;

    quot;t; said t leapt h pleasure.

    Over t feral Asia, so far from their homeland.

    Since tastrop  tic ice o melt, and nerange currents appeared in ter. Since tures arve if tayed o migrate to o t mountains, to t touc unsernal, and deep in snoains, for as long as it took to settle itself again.

    quot;So youre not making ; ill said.

    quot;Our old enemies vanis new ones, we know o fig;

    quot;I t t   case?quot;

    quot;t gave advantage to t else? But I congue. First, I ever serves tc is er.quot;

    old ill of s o ter of turned tic to tage by letting take t could, and as it s source in tains t, and as Lyra oo, t well so far.

    So time  past.

    During ting, gatrengted in every part of co ceppe gave o lo; and still t steamed south.

    alked to tain and t of politeness, but lacking Lyras instant ease rangers,  difficult to to say; and in any case ttle interested in   a back muctle range daemon of cimes it imes it seemed to itious, like many sailors, to leave him

    alone.

    Balt, kept quiet, too. Sometimes oo strong for o put up  and fly c or taste of air, any sing stars or pressure ridges t migalked, at nigtle cabin ill slept in, it o report on  ill tle sympat it, y.  and formal, tic;  t promise, at least.

    As for Iorek,  it for esting bot,  up to t, touc ongue, sniffing it, and even listening to t flosman of t accomplis; nor for Iorek  in ty paws.

    Finally Iorek came to ill and said, quot;t does somet told me about.  is it, and  ;

    quot;I cant s; said ill, quot;because t is moving. As soon as op, Ill s;

    quot;I can t,quot; said t;but not understand  is trangest t;

    And  back to ill, ing, unreadable long stare out of his deep black eyes.

    time  ing t flooders t  do of tic. ted tly in different places, ill saer village stood up to its roofs in er and ried to salvage s and canoes. t tle  race rue course turbid streams. tter, and t o keep cool; some of teamer made its asting tive ers in this foreign land.

    But eventually to rise tains of t central Asian plateau. ill sac greing itself into different peaks and ridges and passes bet it seemed t t be close at  till; it  t tains  t more inconceivably high.

    Most of tains, apart from t as t t ramparts, still so far off.

    quot; ; said one. quot;Are tains? ;

    quot;t; ;e sable. And tures ty. Our lives  for a o ic freezes once more, o go back and claim it. If arved. Be prepared for strangeness and for ne;

    Eventually teamer could sail no fart t t to a  in a valley bottom t normally ain floain insisted t  go past it. Beyond t,  enough.

    So to tcrop of rock formed a sort of jetty, and disembarked.

    quot;; said ill to tain, wed.

    tain found a tattered old map and jabbed at it ;take, go on.quot;

    quot;t; ill said, and o offer to pay; but tain urned ao supervise the unloading.

    Before long all ty or so bears and all tain sed an order, and to turn ponderously against t, maneuvering out into midstream and giving a blast on tle t ecime around the valley.

    ill sat on a rock, reading t, tive, according to to t and t hrough a pass called Sungchen.

    quot;Bears, mark t; said Iorek Byrnison to s. quot;ime comes for us to move back to tic,  make  ens, I s;

    tary creatures for t part, and togetimes of  t tient to be off, eacheir own.

    quot;Come, t; said Iorek Byrnison, quot;and we s;

    ill lifted  off.

    It  part of t t t of t off t t precipitous. ill found  on t, t,  up rengt t of it.  kno, but the bear did.

    And as soon as tropical rain forest steamed and dripped, and ed out into tain air. Iorek couc it, and stepped to t, moist air to look around in silence. t scrapings and frog croakings, and t drip-drip of condensing moisture sounded very loud to ill, outside it.

    tco see t t ill t ting  for a long time and  back ;I ;

    ttle,  a gazelle and ate most of it, leaving tender meat for ill to cook; and once to a village, and , ill exc, coarse bread and some dried fruit, and for boots of yak leatcoat of a kind of s  night.

    o ask about to; anding easier bet directions, which were helpful and clear.

    It ting there.

    And so hers.

    Lord Asriels force, ters and tanker, o go still, but t pause except for essential maintenance, and t in touc fortress. one operator aboard er, and to learn as quickly as Lord Asriel  w was going on elsewhere.

    ting. ttle spy, tcorial Court of Discipline and ty of t, agreed to put ty er and more skillful aletrist to orial Court noly o rescue ing no time, t commandeered a flig same day a battalion of to embark aboard ting in till air beside the Lake of Geneva.

    So eac ts oains. And t   t muc: Lord Asriels gyropters er torial Court, but to fly, and ted by tanker.

    And tion:  t orial Court, because t o consider getting Lyra ao kill her.

    t of torial Court o ialys one resonator, ordering o smuggle t to go aly to tect il King Oguno rescue y o come above every otion.

    Getting t least because of t to carry. Apart from tone resonator, t important items  larvae, and t insects emerged, t t like any kind of dragonfly t tures carefully, and eacs differed from t. tialyss clan bred poriped dragonflies al appetites, -flying creature ric blue body and the dark.

    Every spy ed amounts of oil and ion or bring rapidly to adultialys and Salmakia y-six o c  time t ake, and ts to emerge before the zeppelins landed.

    to roar, s structure from end to end as t off and t zeppelins rose into t sky.

    tal insult, but to conceal t least as s. From t in oucer.

    But t learn any more about on t never spoke of it: and t ter of to commit if torial Court failed in tracking  all.