1/8/2023 0 Comments Doctor who red button gifShe pestered Roger van Poppel with suggestions about the stores they needed to take: Had he remembered snow goggles? Did he know the best place to get arctic maps? She hung around Adam Stefanski, watching as he made his choice of the volunteers for the fighting force. ![]() Meanwhile, all around her the tantalizing work of assembling the expedition was going on day and night. Pantalaimon sat up in her arms, his wildcat eyes blazing green. She was inside the room now, and all the men and their daemons were watching her, some with amusement and some with irritation, but she had eyes only for John Faa. The door shut behind her with a decisive click. Pantalaimon hissed quietly, but John Faa's daemon took off from the back of his chair and flew at them with black wings, not threateningly, but like a reminder of good manners and Lyra turned on her heel as the crow glided over her head and wheeled back to John Faa. ![]() Over the next few days, Lyra concocted a dozen plans and dismissed them impatiently for they all boiled down to stowing away, and how could you stow away on a narrowboat? To be sure, the real voyage would involve a proper ship, and she knew enough stories to expect all kinds of hiding places on a full-sized vessel: the lifeboats, the hold, the bilges, whatever they were but she'd have to get to the ship first, and leaving the fens meant traveling the gyptian way.
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