223.Chapter 223

"This?" Lyra dug it out from the bottom, where it had been buried for weeks. Her master had given it to her, muttering something about how she could take it to some shop if she ever got into trouble.

But she'd been half-asleep, and the details were fuzzy. She hadn't needed it in Kingsport, so she'd just shoved it in her bag—partly because she was still annoyed that her master had left without expl