Over the course of the morning, she makes contact first with Roger and then with Ma Costa’s son Billy. In the morning, Lyra joins the day-to-day life of the children at Bolvangar. Coulter learns of her presence, Lyra begins to plot.

The girls reply that she will come the day after tomorrow. This news makes Lyra very nervous and she asks when Mrs. The girls also mention that usually a group of children disappear s when Mrs. Once the child attracts Dust the adults remove them from Bolvangar. One of the children has heard that the adults perform tests to measure when the child starts attracting Dust. They inform Lyra that usually children arrive in big groups, the adults perform experiments on them, and then one by one they are taken away, never to return. Shortly after, she is awoken by three girls, Annie, Bella and Martha, who have already been at Bolvangar for some time. Sister Clara takes Lyra to a dormitory with many sleeping children, and she quickly falls asleep.

Lyra begins to feel very tired because the nurse put sleeping pills in her food. He lies to her, telling her that her father will soon come to find her at the station, safe and sound. The doctor tries to convince Lyra that she hallucinated the attack because of the cold and that she must have simply gotten lost. However, attackers raided their caravan and took her away. Lyra invents a story that her father is a tobacco trader who is fulfilling a promise to bring her on a trip. As Lyra eats, the doctor asks what she is doing in the North. However, she allows Lyra to keep her oilskin pouch with her alethiometer, spy-fly, and twig of cloud-pine.Īfter measuring Lyra 's height and weight, Sister Clara brings her to a cafeteria to serve her a plate of food.

Sister Clara takes Lyra’s clothes and puts her in used pajamas. Lyra gives them a false name and pretends to be uninterested and clueless so that they do not discover her identity. The Samoyed hunters take Lyra and Pantalaimon to Bolvangar, where a n uninspired doctor and a dull nurse named Sister Clara receive her. T hey do not even know Lyra’s name, let alone her purpose for being in the North or her political importance. But soon she learns that they are actually local Samoyed hunters. At first she thinks her kidnappers are Tartars acting under the direction of Mrs. In the confusion that follows, a pair of attackers snatch Lyra and taker her away on a sledge. Unexpectedly, a shower of arrows attacks the group.

As the gyptian caravan heads further north, a heavy fog settles over them.

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