All Chapters of The Luna He Gave Away : Chapter 61

Lyra's POVThe watcher gave me a location, a key, and no explanation.Just those two things, and then they left me alone in the corridor outside the archive, which told me whatever was inside was something they had been waiting to give me for a long time and couldn't watch me receive.I went in by myself.The oldest section of the archive was at the back, behind the records everyone used and the records nobody used anymore, and then a final section that nobody had catalogued in forty years. The numbers on the spines used a system I didn't recognize a notation style from before the current Alpha's records began.I counted shelves from the back wall the way the watcher had described.Third from the bottom. Behind a set of territorial survey volumes so old the bindings had gone soft.A sealed case. Small. Not much larger than the kind used for important correspondence.I put the key in. I opened it.The first thing inside was a dress.Infant-sized, faded pale yellow from years in the cas