e her neck.

    And tly, crooning baby songs, smootting  face dry, o ring of nonsense syllables, la-la-la, ba-ba-boo-boo,  voice mouthing gibberish.

    Eventually t stopped, and took a pair of scissors and trimmed t to see t effect. Sook one dark blond curl and put it in a little gold locket sell . But t to ... Orange.

    t t of to to snatcing bat from ttle black t pierced Ama from one ear to t to  and out and out till it snapped and broke and e string of sines fellotle t limb by limb, and te a box of ce.

    time passed. Lighe woman and her daemon fell asleep.

    Ama, stiff and painful, crept up from iptoed out past t make a sound till sh.

    itrail,   motion of treetops, ted clouds in tars all calmed tle.

    Sopped in sigtle one .

    quot;S; Ama said. quot;So us!  can ell Dada?  can ;

    quot;Dont tell,quot; said ;More trouble. eve got take ;

    t filled t it tle paper package , and to use it.

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    see  me...”

    quot;O be frigened, too, Ill go mad...”

    tried to ig ty air. Lyra tried to say le pale face in the darkness:

    quot;Im just trying to  to ! I  care if it  for an  kno, even, but I will ;

    quot;But if youre dreaming, Lyra, you mig believe it  t ;