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of it, there's a bad spirit with a spell through its heart."
"But who sent it?"
"You don't even need to read the symbols, Lyra; you can guess as easy as I can."
"Mrs. Coulter"I see it now!" said Lyra, suddenly excited. "It means air, that lizard thing! I saw that, but I couldn't see why, so I tried to work it out and I lost it."
"Ah," said Farder Coram, "then I see it too. It en't a lizard, that's ?"'"Course. She en't only explored up north; there's strange things aplenty in the southern wild. It was Morocco where I saw one of these last. Deadly dangerous; while the spirit's in it, it won't never stop, and when you let the spirit free, it's so monstrous angry it'll kill the first thing it gets at.""But what was it after?""Spying. I was a cursed fool to let you up above. And I should have let you think your way through the symbols without interrupting."
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