And if it isn’t enough, the gruesome ice-covered head he brings with him should be.
But the girl has never met a limit she hasn’t tried to test.
While she’s overjoyed to see her uncle again, others are not so happy.
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He flees right as her uncle enters and pours himself a glass.
Taken by surprise and paranoid from experience, Lord Asriel throttles Lyra before he realizes it’s her.
He wants to know how the Master reacts whenever Dust is mentioned.
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Now this isn’t the normal sort that you banish with a can of Pledge.
And Asriel, being as headstrong as his niece is, plans to discuss it.
Through his research, he’s obtained long-suspected proof that Dust is only attracted to adults and not children.
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And he can prove it as he pulls out Grumman’s ice-covered head.
And he dares them to stand against him.
In the end, they don’t and he gets his funding.
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In the excitement, he forgets about Lyra and later finds her fast asleep in her hiding place.
He carries her up to bed and tenderly tucks her in.
Can she look at Grumman’s head?
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Will he take her North with him?
And can they still trust the Master given what he tried to do?
“I don’t trust anyone,” says Asriel.
He tells her that it’s too dangerous and that she needs to stay put.
But that’s a mystery for later and Asriel looks conflicted as he leaves.
Lyra, though still determined to go North, flees in distress.
Elsewhere in Oxford, a Gyptian child named Billy Costa has been kidnapped.
And that it’s time they went to London to find them.
But she can’t leave Roger behind and asks Mrs. Coulter if he can come along.
After some reluctance, Mrs. Coulter agrees he can come.
The time for playing childish games is over.
Unfortunately, the unit remains a mystery to her and gives her no answers.
Lyra stares out the window instead and sees the Gyptian boats headed in the same direction.
She’s not the only one on the tail of the Gobblers.
Whatever the Gobblers have in store for him, it doesn’t look good.
