"Lord Boreal, have you heard anything about my wife?" Edward asked waving his hands back and fourth in his chair. They were on their way to Oxford to find Marisa; traveling by zeppelin.

"No. I have not Mr Coulter." he said looking out the zeppelin window sill. His daemon lurked about in her normal ways, just crawling up in his arm. He watched Edward with a feeling of disgust.

Edward looked the other way, trying to distract his thoughts by looking away form Boreal. He got up with an angry matter and his anger turned to violence. He grabbed his chair and flung it across the room.

"Then you better find her!" he demanded as his lion daemon growled with long hatred. His hand let a angry grasp on the handle bar and he put his hand fiercely on Carlo's neck making him gag. "She is with that Belacqua, and I now she is going to have his baby." A glare was locked onto Boreal's, making an intimidation even more visible. "You better bring her to me alive, or I'll kill you right now." He let go with a fierce bang of Boreal's neck against the wall.

"Yes, I will Mr. Coulter." he said disturbed by the fierce anger left from Edward.

"Good." he said coldly, leaving the room and Boreal behind.

Lord Boreal looked out the window again and with a long sigh he rolled his eyes and began to leave the room, to find Mrs. Coulter.

Knowing her ambition of power would never come true, never shine under the eyes of being a mother would make her dreams come true. She wanted to become powerful, and she wasn't going to get it this way. Her ambition would always be there; and it would not go away.

Marisa lie breathing faster and faster, her rapid movements of her daemon made them even worse. She wanted the pain to go away, she wanted to act like this was a dream; but it wasn't. She felt the baby come faster this time. Her mouth dropped as tears fell down her face, and she screamed again.

"Miss!" said one nurse now coming in to help her. "sweetie it is going to be alright you will be fine."

"It really hurts," she didn't look up to her, she did not look away from her exploding feelings. "is my darling going to be alright? Is my baby coming now?" she asked anxiously.

The nurse smiled warmly.

"It's time."

Marisa looked at her with relief, but a bit of terror filled her heart. She had been scared of being a mother, when ever she would get mad, she didn't want to hurt her child. Tears filled her eyes wishing Asriel was with her. She was afraid of not being good enough to love a child. She knew she would become powerless. Shaking her head violently back and forth, she screamed one more time; the nurse got the doctor. By the time, she was giving birth.

Looking beyond the day, and beneath the light, the wind played with the rain. The moon had come up about an hour ago above the horizon. The sounds of laughter and cries filled the respected layers of emotions and the cries of sadness demolished with a triumph of hope that lingered in the human spirit. The hospitality of the hospital were welcoming with the comfortable beds that filled the fresh morning air. This time a baby was born, she was born a few minutes ago.

The doctor with his hands wide cradling the baby to show her mother, she looked up with a long and emotional sigh; then looked away with distress. Her daemon still in the same state as before. They cleaned her up gently removing any access amount of blood that had been left on her. The nurse wrapped her in a cloth and she looked into the baby's eyes and saw just how beautiful she really was.

"Ma Costa, I am sure the mother would like to see her?" the doctor said looking back at Marisa.

She hesitated, and then brought the baby close to Marisa's side.

Marisa didn't look at her right away, she was in too much pain to look at her beautiful face. The room seemed quiet, just too quiet, mean while the golden monkey slowly went closer to Marisa's breast. He looked at the girl and then back at Marisa. One glance at her daemon, then she sat upright in the bed that was made comfortable to her. She accepted to hold the baby instantly.

Everyone looked at each other and left the room.

Marisa looked at her, and she looked at her mother with a hiccup. She smiled with happy tears running down her face, the baby' s daemon had been a small wildcat at her throat, seeing her made Marisa's heart sink in her blood.

"Darling," she whispered gently touching her face with her hand. "my Lyra." she smiled and remembered what Asriel said about the star. "my Lyra." when she said Lyra's name a second time she looked at her with a loving and warm smile. Marisa let out a small laugh as baby and mother slept together in one embrace. The whole time she wished Asriel was there to see just how beautiful Lyra was.