Where's that book with all the symbols in? she asked him one day. His mind was sharp and clear and powerful, though, and soon Lyra came to love him for his knowledge and for the firm way he directed her. He could not walk without leaning on two sticks, and he trembled constantly like an aspen leaf. Stay here and help Ma Costa and keep safe. John Faa said, 'Lyra, there en't no question of taking you into danger, so don't delude yourself, child. I bet there's one in Bodley's Library in Oxford, she said. If you want to see the North, you'll have to wait till all this trouble's over. 'I know your heart was set on going north, but it's my belief not even Mrs. She pestered Roger van Poppel with suggestions about the stores they needed to take: Had he remembered snow goggles? Did he know the best place to get arctic maps?

She hung around Adam Stefanski, watching as he made his choice of the volunteers for the fighting force.

Meanwhile, all around her the tantalizing work of assembling the expedition was going on day and night.

What's that little old thing on top of it? There's often a clue there if you look more close. Probably you'll need me to help you understand Mr. I think it'd be best if I helped you, Farder Coram, she said, 'because I probably know more about the Gobblers than anyone else, being as I was nearly one of them. Pantalaimon sat up in her arms, his wildcat eyes blazing green. She was inside the room now, and all the men and their daemons were watching her, some with amusement and some with irritation, but she had eyes only for John Faa. What's that hourglass mean, Farder Coram? she asked, over the alethiometer, one sunny morning in his boat. So in default, Lyra attached herself to Farder Coram. But he had slipped away in the early hours of the morning after the second roping, and naturally no one could say where he'd gone or when he'd return. The man she most wanted to help was Benjamin de Ruyter, the spy. Over the next few days, Lyra concocted a dozen plans and dismissed them impatiently for they all boiled down to stowing away, and how could you stow away on a narrowboat? To be sure, the real voyage would involve a proper ship, and she knew enough stories to expect all kinds of hiding places on a full-sized vessel: the lifeboats, the hold, the bilges, whatever they were but she'd have to get to the ship first, and leaving the fens meant traveling the gyptian way.

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