Chapter 76

Lyra

It's not long before I'm back and all of it's cut short—ended. To think I could leave and never come back, was wishful thinking. Perhaps I thought that Torin wouldn't come after me if I did. Maybe I assumed wrong. Maybe I didn't know anything at all.

"Take it," he says, looking down at the small bottle in my hand and then at me. "Now." He's still angry, furious, actually. The fu