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Sam picked up his pack, but before he could put it on, Mogget leaped onto it and slid under the top flap. All that could be seen of him were his green eyes and one white-furred ear. “Remember I advised against this way,” he instructed. “Wake me when whatever terrible thing is about to happen happens, or if it appears I might get wet.”
“Farewell,” said Sam. “Go safely,” said Lirael. “Do not come back,” said the Dog.
“IT WAS HUGE,” sobbed the man, panic in his eyes and voice. “Bigger than a horse, with wings . . . wings that blocked the sky. And it had a man in its claws, dangling . . . horrible . . . horrible! The screeching . . . you must have heard the screeching?” The other members of the small band of Travelers nod-ded, many of them looking up into the fading light of the evening sky. “And something else was flying with it,” whispered the man. “A dog. A dog with wings!” His listeners exchanged glances of disbelief. A giant owl they could accept, after the screeching they’d heard. This was the
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“She’s a student,” protested Coelle. “What will I tell her parents if . . . if she doesn’t . . .” “I don’t know,” said Sabriel. “I have never known what to tell anybody. Except that it is better to do something than nothing, even if the cost is great.”
“Why, Yrael?” it said, as the last of the dark gave way to silver, and the shining sphere of metal sank slowly to the ground. “Why?” Yrael’s answer seemed to travel across a great space, words trickling into Lirael’s consciousness as she raised her sword still higher, body arching back, preparing for the mighty blow that must cut through the entire sphere. “Life,” said Yrael, who was more Mogget than it ever knew. “Fish and fowl, warm sun and shady trees, the field mice in the wheat, under the cool light of the moon. All the—” Lirael didn’t hear any more. She gathered up all her courage and
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