Devastation

Ch.3

Horrible Thoughts

As Will and Lyra were thinking things over and planning out what they would do next, their daemons were reasoning too.

"What shall we do? We hardly have any time left at all!" Kirjava exclaimed.

"Yes we all know but we have to do something. I'm sure brilliant Lyra will come up with something," Pan reassured her.

"Oh I sure hope so…" Kirjava said.

"Well have any ideas?" Will said; it was just like the old days.

"Maybe we could…no we're dead Will! DEAD! D-E-A-D! What could we possibly do?" Lyra asked worriedly.

"Maybe somehow we could get back out into the world. I mean things have changed. Maybe I could get something back…" Will trailed off as his ideas came to an end.

"That's it we could go back in time!" Lyra exclaimed. Will gave her a weird look.

"What's that supposed to mean?" he interrogated.

"Well, we could go back in time, just like I have done. I went back in time in order to see you again…maybe this isn't real. Maybe there's some way we could still be alive." Lyra mussed.

"Let me know when you figure that one out," Will said. Lyra stood thinking.

"I could ask the alethiometer…" Lyra suggested. She took it out, and of course, to her and Will's dismay it's didn't work. "Well in order o get to you I had to think of our 'future' together. So I did and I appeared by Botanic Gardens. Maybe if we think of the past, when you had the Subtle Knife-"

"Lyra just what are you getting at here?" Will asked, confused.

"Well we could do just that! Think of when the Subtle Knife still existed and maybe somehow we could get it back so we could…escape? Well we'll think about that later, right now we should concentrate on getting the Subtle Knife back…"

"Lyra, this sounds really impossible…" Will commented. Then he though, Well what we went through before was too, wasn't it? Yet we made it barely, just go with the flow…

So Lyra and Will went back to NoName and relayed their plans to her. She flapped her wings.

"Well, it certainly does sound impossible, but this place could be a fantasy too. You guys should give it a try I guess…" NoName encouraged them.

"But where shall we go now?' asked Lyra who was anxious to begin their next journey.

"You must hope for the best and pray that you won't dissolve in the air. There's a high chance of that; it's most likely you won't make it. But, of course, you two are legendary heroes who achieved the greatest goals so I wouldn't doubt too much."

"Thank you NoName," Lyra whispered. "We shall set off tomorrow, ok Will? Kirjava? Pan?" she asked each of them. They all nodded in agreement.

"Well, you should all get a nice sleep. This journey's bound to last…" NoName said. She had no idea that what she just said would make a whole big difference in the expedition they were about to embark on.