And she turned in delight.
"Mr. Scoresby! Oh, I'm so glad
chanel bags outlet online to hear you! And it is you, I can see, just, oh, I wish I could touch you!"
In the faint, faint light she made out the lean form and the sardonic smile of the Texan aeronaut, and her hand reached forward of its own accord, in vain.
"Me too, honey. But listen to me, they're working some trouble out there, and it's aimed at you, don't ask me how. Is this the boy with the knife?"
Will had been
cheap louis vuitton bags looking at him, eager to see this old companion of Lyra's; but now his eyes went right past Lee to look at the ghost beside him. Lyra saw at once who it was, and marveled at this grown-up vision of Will, the same jutting jaw, the same way of holding his head.
Will was speechless, but his father said:
"Listen, there's no time to talk about this, just do exactly as I say. Take the knife now and find
cheap chanel bags a place where a lock has been cut from Lyra's hair."
His tone was urgent, and Will didn't waste time asking why. Lyra, her eyes wide with alarm, held up the dragonfly with one hand and felt her hair with the other.
"No," said Will, "take your hand away, I can't see."
And in the faint gleam, he could see it: just above her left temple, there was a little patch of hair that was shorter than the rest.
"Who did
cheap louis vuitton handbags that?" said Lyra. "And...”
"Hush," said Will, and asked his father's ghost, "What must I do?”
"Cut the short hair off right down to her scalp. Collect it carefully, every single hair. Don't miss even one. Then open another world, any will do, and put the hair through into it, and then close it again. Do it now, at once."
The harpy was watching, the ghosts behind were crowding close. Lyra could see their faint faces in the dimness. Frightened
louis vuitton outlet and bewildered, she stood biting her lip while Will did as his father told him, his face close up to the knifepoint in the paling dragonfly light. He cut a little hollow space in the rock of another world, put all the tiny golden hairs into it, and replaced the rock before closing the window.
And then the ground began to shake. From somewhere very deep came a growling, grinding noise, as if the whole center of the
louis vuitton outlet earth were turning on itself like a vast millwheel, and little fragments of stone began to fall from the roof of the tunnel. The ground lurched suddenly to one side. Will seized Lyra's arm, and they clung together as the rock under their feet began to shift and slide, and loose pieces of stone came tumbling past, bruising their legs and feet...