Chapter 3: The Searching begins

They decided that they would look for: The armored bears, The witches of
Seriffina and Ruta Skadi's clans, The gallivespians, the Gyptians, the Mulefa and the
angels on their side. Lyra hoped they would find them all. Lyra and Will went to find
the gyptians cause they were closest and on the way to the bears. Xaphania went to
her angels and then they would go search for the witches. "Now I leave you Lyra and
Will, I'm sure we will all make it back from our travels safe and see each other again.
" Xaphania said to the children. "Farewell Xaphania, and may your search be
successful." Lyra replied. Then the two groups parted ways in their search for peace.

Will and Lyra just stood there in a silent disbelief. They where together
again! They had both thought that impossible, but still there they where, together!
But there was a problem they had to fix. They had to stop an entire army of angels!
Then Lyra snapped out of it and told Will that he had to learn how to get from world to
world if they were to even start looking. "Your right! OK, how do you do it?"
"Well, you have to imagine an invisible line in the air. Don't concentrate on anything
else, just that line. Once you have it in your mind just try to walk through it. Will thought
that it must be just like using the subtle knife so he got into the same state of mind as
when he used to look for those holes in the air. It happened almost instantly, he saw a
little red line from the clouds to the pavement underneath him. He started to walk
towards it. Then he heard Lyra yell "No! Wait!" But it was to late. He felt himself falling
but he hit the ground almost instantly. He looked up and saw Lyra falling from 7 or so
feet in the air. Then she landed beside him. She said in a shaky voice, "Last time, I
was 50 feet in the air, but Xaphania caught me."
"Well then that was close." Will said. They hugged for a minute or so then moved on
north to where the gyptians where.

Xaphania flew south to find her troupes. She flew for an hour going from
world to world every once in a while. When she got to her base she found that only a
few angels remained, and they where injured for the most part. She asked one of the
ones who escaped injury what happened. "We were attacked, the forces of Majuka
came and wiped the whole place out. A few of us managed to hide in the building
over there but when half it collapsed most died and somewhere injured. My friends and
I got lucky, we where on the other side of the building." The angel told her. Xaphania
whipped a tear from her cheek and told the remaining ones who could follow to
come with her and one to stay behind and care for the injured. "We must go look for
the witches of Seriffina Pecelas, and Ruta Skadi's clans." Xaphania told them.
"We shall search with you." One of the angels replied.

Lyra and Will where sitting in the retiring room at Jordan College. "I know it
is normally forbidden for a female to enter the retiring room, but I am willing to make
exception." The master said. "Well this isn't my first time, before I left with Mrs. Coulter,
I hid in that closet right there during a meting when Lord Asriel came. The one when
he showed you all the skull of Stanilus Grumman. Although that was not the real skull.
He was really Will's dad who was quite alive at the time." Lyra said half mockingly.
"Well. Normally I would punish you but now I don't have the power to and that was
years ago." The master Replied.