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st was t

e small cavern they'd taken shelter in, Lyra couldn't s

t handed her a steaming bowl of broth and vanished to stand watch in the snow. He hadn't asked fo

sitting in t

her shirt. It still pulsed lightly - not painf

told Kael

moon whispered to her in a voice that wasn't hers. That the

e man. And she didn't trus

at her like a threat. He

er head. Do

ng the protest of her li

y above was a steel gray now. The crimson of th

ing on a rock, shir

ething into the ba

s. Old

runes?" she

turn. "You

ore every full moon," she said.

not. No

t her then, and h

in and power. One tattoo, in particular, glowed faintly:

't believe in the p

"Until you walked into m

t what makes you believe?

ened. "Yes. And

the snow beh

ed around

s. Wolf. Not his

of the clearing, s

oo

r now, already shift

he said. "Someon

in the river. There were three. M

y found another way. They're not

n wh

said. "Before th

ed. "Why would they

growled. "They ca

d again. Amber

d, voice cold now. "The