like a thief in the night

lay your weapons down

and I'll take my armor off

say what we need to say

and love before it's lost

And when they use our atoms to make new lives, they won’t just be able to take one, they’ll have to take two, one of you and one of me, we’ll be joined so tight…

flashes of the battle come back to me in a blur

all that bloodshed, crimson clover

sweet dream was over

Then Lyra took one of those little red fruits. With a fast-beating heart, she turned to him and said, “Will.”

And she lifted the fruit gently to his mouth.

She could see from his eyes that he knew at once what she meant, and that he was too joyful to speak. her fingers were still at his lips, and he felt them tremble, and he put his own hand up to hold hers there, and then neither of them could look; they were confused; they were brimming with happiness.

Like two moths clumsily bumping together, with no more weight than that, their lips touched. Then before they knew how it happened, they were clinging together, blindly pressing their faces toward each other.

lyra was the first to wake. as the sun moved up the sky, it came past the rock above and touched her hair, and she began to stir, and when the sunlight reached her eyelids she found herself pulled up from the depths of sleep like a fish, slow and heavy and resistant.

It was such an unexpected remark that he blinked. His dæmon uttered the softest possible growl at the back of her throat. He said nothing.

“Everything, every surface, every cubic centimetre of air, was permeated by the falling Dust, which gave a soft clarity to every tiny detail.”

“Oh, Asriel, what will happen to us?” Mrs Coulter said again. “Is this the end of everything?” He said nothing.

MRS COULTER LAY IN LORD ASRIEL’S BED HEAVY WITH LONGING IT WAS SIMPLY THE SOUND OF LORD ASRIEL’S VOICE THAT SHE WANTED TO HEAR WE SHOULD HAVE MARRIED SHE SAID AND BROUGHT HER UP OURSELVES HE TOOK HER IN HIS ARMS AND THE GOLDEN MONKEY EMBRACED THE SNOW LEOPARD’S NECK AND BURIED HIS BLACK FACE IN HER FUR DUST IS BEAUTIFUL I NEVER KNEW HE KISSED HER SHE FELT AS SOFT AND LIGHT IN HIS ARMS AS SHE’D DONE WHEN LYRA WAS CONCEIVED THIRTEEN YEARS BEFORE BUT I LOVE LYRA WHERE DID THIS LOVE COME FROM I DON’T KNOW IT CAME TO ME LIKE A THIEF IN THE NIGHT HE STROKED HER SHINING HAIR ALL SET ABOUT WITH GOLDEN DUST HE KISSED HER AND SAID CALL HIM NOW MARISA MY LOVE FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKKKKKK