Lyra’s POVI crushed the remaining dust between my fingers and let it scatter across the wound, and the faint moonlight still filtering through the settling dust cloud caught the powder and magnified it just enough to steady the trembling silver light around my hands. I pulled again, harder this time, and the spear finally tore free with a sickening, wet sound that made my stomach lurch.The guardian's entire body convulsed once, twice, and then went suddenly, terrifyingly still."No," I whispered, both hands pressed flat against the wound as silver light poured out of me in a steady, desperate stream. "Not after everything. Please, not now."For several unbearable seconds, nothing happened at all.Then the creature's chest rose in one long, shuddering breath, silver light spreading slowly beneath its scales from the point where my hands still rested, and its ancient presence pressed weakly but unmistakably against my thoughts once more.“Thank you,” It said. Though I fear you have on
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