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the monkey's caress. "Why do you need to find him?"
"He has something I want. Oh, Marisa—"
"What is it, Carlo? What's he got?"
He shook his head. But he was finding it hard to resist; his daemon was twined gently around the monkey's breast, and ghostly trees seemed to have planted itself, a grove that shivered every so often with a tremor like a conscious intention. But they were not trees, of course; and while all the curiosity of Lena Feldt and her daemon was directed at Mrs. Coulter, one of the pallid forms detached itself from its fellows and drifted across the surface of the icy water, causing nrunning her head through and through the long, lustrous fur as his hands moved along her fluid length.Lena Feldt watched them, standing invisible just two paces from where they sat. Her bowstring was taut, the arrow nocked to it in readiness; she could have pulled and loosed in less than a second, and Mrs. Coulter would have been dead before she finished drawing breath. But the witch was curious. She stood still and silent and wide-eyed.But while she was watching Mrs. Coulter, she didn't look behind her across the little blue lake. On the far side of it in the darkness a grove of ot a single ripple, until it paused a foot from the rock on which Lena
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