Lyra didn’t even remember how they got back to the palace one minute she was holding Kieran in the snow shaking and crying and trying to keep him warm and the next there were guards everywhere shouting her name trying to lift him off the ground and everything just blurred together… the noise, the cold and the smell of blood it all mixed together making her want to throw up.

Now she was sitting on the edge of her bed all wrapped in a thick blanket that felt way too heavy for her small, ...