Chapter 2
Lyra sat down in the Botanic Gardens in her Oxford with her Daemon Pantalaimon running around her feet. She had taken Dame Hannah's offer on going to school. She had had met many nice children there, but that's what they were, children. After all she had been through and all she had seen, she felt so much older then them all. She had changed a great deal during her experiences with Will, so she had decided not to talk about her travels. Unfortunately, Cleo Layne, one of the girls that had escaped from Bolvangar had already told everyone about her before she had arrived. With out even trying she got a usual gang of urchins. She ended up telling everyone her stories, always the truth. She was thinking about will when she felt him there beside her. AS long as she thought abut him he was there. Pantalaimon looked up at her,
"'Member what the angel Xaphenia, said? 'bout the way Shaman's can move between worlds? How do they do that? We must be able to learn!" he said. Lyra had been learning how to read the Alethiometer with the books, trying to memorize the symbols meanings. She had wanted to ask how to do that but the answer had been too complicated to figure out. She continued to think about will and slipped into the Alethiometer trance. She could see him sitting there stroking Kirjava staring at her, well staring at the wall behind her. She was so excited that she slipped out of it quite quickly. Pan was looking up at her with his big eyes. She tried again slipping into a trance but nothing happened.
"What's going on?" she asked Pan, "It's not working!"
"You have to concentrate on Will!" She tried again and found it easier. This time Pantalaimon came with her he went up to Kirjava and started to talk to her, at the same time that Lyra shouted "Will!" it was then that Will had felt the tug at his heart and Kirjava's fur had ruffled.
"This 'ent fair!" she said stamping her foot. On one side she could see the 'in the flesh' Lyra sitting there with her eyes glazed over and Pan beside her wearing the same vacant expression, and on this side she could see Will, her beloved, her true love, not being able to see her. She walked over and touched his face he shivered and Kirjava and him just said "Lyra."
"Oh, Will, this 'ent right, not right at all. We should be together, not like this, seeing you here, there, with out me, with out you seeing me… erg!" a tear fell from her face and landed on Will's hand. He looked at it, he didn't move. Some how he knew this wasn't a raindrop or a normal drop of water, it looked like a tear.