"Ghosts?" said Tialys, trying to hold the skepticism from his
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"We couldn't hurt living creatures, that's quite true. But Asriel's army is going to contend with other kinds of being as well."
"Those Specters," said Lee.
"Just what I was thinking. They make for the daemon, don't they? And our daemons are long gone. It's worth a try, Lee."
"Well, I'm with you, my friend."
"And you, sir," said John Parry's ghost to the Chevalier: "I have spoken to the ghosts of your people. Will you live
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"It's true, our lives are short compared to yours. I have a few days more to live," said Tialys, "and the Lady Salmakia a little longer, perhaps. But thanks to what those children are doing, our exile as ghosts will not be permanent. I have been proud to help them."
They moved on. And that abominable fall yawned all the time, and one little slip,
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Oh, that would be far worse than the gray, silent world they were leaving, wouldn't
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A strange thing happened to her mind then. The thought of falling induced a kind of vertigo in Lyra, and she swayed. Will was ahead of her, just too far to reach, or she might have taken his hand; but at that moment she was more conscious of Roger, and a little flicker of vanity blazed up for a moment in her heart. There'd been an occasion once on Jordan College roof when just to frighten him, she'd defied
cheap louis vuitton bags her vertigo and walked along the edge of the stone gutter.
She looked back to remind him of it now. She was Roger's Lyra, full of grace and daring; she didn't need to creep along like an insect.
But the little boy's whispering voice said, "Lyra, be careful, remember, you en't dead like us...”
And it seemed to happen so slowly, but there was nothing she could do: her weight shifted, the stones moved under her feet, and helplessly she began to
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