His Dark Materials

‫The skies in this world ‫are just as beautiful as ours.

‫It gives me some hope.

‫Lyra must be close.

‫Angels?

‫It can't be.

‫They haven't made themselves visible ‫for thousands of years.

‫And the last time they were seen, ‫it was to make war.

‫Now that Asriel has thrown the ‫worlds apart, they are going to him.

‫If Asriel has angels on his side, ‫he can do anything.

‫This is the sign I needed.

‫- You want to follow? ‫- I will bring Asriel back.

‫And we will return to our world ‫and destroy the Magisterium together.

‫We must find Lyra.

‫The fate of many worlds ‫may rest on you,

‫You have a task ahead of you.

‫Will?

‫Will?

‫His hand is worse.

‫I'm not sure we can help him, Lyra?

‫It's me.

‫Lyra!

‫Lyra!

‫I see you!

‫Will, wake up! ‫Will, we need to get out of here!

‫Angelica's downstairs ‫and she's going to kill us.

‫Will! Hurry up!

‫Come on, this way!

‫Will, help me!

‫Can you cut us out of here?

‫Hurry!!

‫- He has the Knife! ‫- Look, we don't want to hurt you.

‫We want to hurt you.

‫You killed our brother ‫and you stole the Knife.

‫It would have protected us. ‫And our adults in the hills.

‫I'm so sorry about your brother.

‫Leave now.

‫Let me see the wound.

‫Was it your Knife that made that?

‫Show them, Will.

‫- If you trust me, you trust her. ‫- You've never met her.

‫And if you think you can keep ‫anything from her, you can't.

‫They're here to help us.

‫Have you ever seen such a blade before?

‫No.

‫This edge, ‫what does this edge cut?

‫- Everything. ‫- Nothing.

‫Well, you're not poisoned ‫but this isn't a normal wound.

‫It's going to take more ‫than plants to heal it.

‫It needs a spell.

‫We need to gather lichens.

‫Well if that isn't the craziest thing!

‫Do you think you can fly through it?

‫Just make yourself comfortable, ‫Mr. Jopari.

‫We're going in.

‫Woah!

‫Ok, ‫so not quite the Cave and a keyboard,

‫but let's see if you work as well.

‫"Turning to the summit ‫For provision of nourishment"

‫"Brings good fortune"

‫"Spying about with sharp eyes ‫Like a tiger with insatiable craving."

‫"Keeping still is the mountain ‫It is a bypath"

‫"It means little stones ‫Doors and openings"

‫"Signs are coming ‫that will steal you on your path"

‫Good, ‫something I can understand for a change.

‫You know, you keep staring at me.

‫I've always wanted to meet a witch.

‫My father gave me a book about witches.

‫It had pictures in it.

‫They all had raven hair.

‫I find those books irritating. ‫Asriel knows what a witch looks like.

‫Don't touch that flower!

‫I want to know everything.

‫- What can you do? ‫- What can I do?

‫I know you can fly, obviously. ‫And you can kill; pretty easily.

‫And the cold doesn't affect you.

‫And you can hear whispers on the wind.

‫Are we safe?

‫Is Will safe?

‫- His wound is deep... ‫- But he'll get better?

‫Right now that we're with you, ‫he'll be better?

‫We will do what we can here. ‫But then we must travel to our lands.

‫Our lands?

‫The flora is more powerful in our world.

‫You're taking us home?

‫I pledged to keep you safe, Lyra. ‫We'll do so at home.

‫A place I know; a place I can hide you.

‫Why isn't she frightened?

‫She's not from here, is she?

‫Maybe they're right. ‫Maybe we should go to my world.

‫Why did you leave, Lyra?

‫To investigate Dust,

‫to try to do my best for Roger.

‫The thing is, these witches...

‫they're connected to the earth, ‫they can find answer after answer...

‫And my father?

‫What does the Alethiometer say to do?

‫Will, I can see the way you're hiding ‫your hand, I know it's bleeding.

‫Only a little.

‫There are more powerful ‫plants in my world.

‫- They say that and I think that too. ‫- Look, I get it.

‫You're scared ‫because you think I can't go on.

‫I can do this;

‫we can do this.

‫Ask the Alethiometer where my father is;

‫what world he's in, ‫where we might find him.

‫He's close.

‫What?!

‫He's in this world.

‫So this is a new world.

‫New to those not born in it.

‫As old as yours or mine otherwise.

‫What Asriel has done has shaken ‫everything up, Mr. Scoresby.

‫It looks empty.

‫Not so. Beyond that headland ‫is a city once powerful and wealthy.

‫That's where we're headed to. ‫The Knife Bearer may be there.

‫Once great, ‫the city has fallen on hard times.

‫In another life, I'd be looking ‫for what I could scavenge.

‫In another life, ‫neither of us would be here at all.

‫You have a strange way about you, ‫Mr. Jopari.

‫They say things about shamans.

‫- Oh, yeah? What do they say? ‫- That they have powers;

‫that they can fly.

‫Yet you cannot.

‫- Oh, but I can. ‫- How do you figure?

‫I needed to fly; I summoned you.

‫Here I am; flying.

‫I'm human, but I've learned ‫a few things along the way.

‫I've spent time with witches, ‫academicians, spirits.

‫I found folly everywhere.

‫And this journey? ‫Is it folly or wisdom?

‫This journey...

‫I don't know.

‫So we find the Bearer ‫of the Subtle Knife and what then?

‫We tell him what his task is.

‫And that task includes protecting Lyra.

‫It will protect us all.

‫- That's it. We're stopping. ‫- No. Ask the Alethiometer.

‫Ask how close my father is.

‫There's no point getting you ‫to your father

‫if when we get you there, ‫you're half dead.

‫No, you're using me ‫as an excuse to stop.

‫I'm sorry.

‫I know you wouldn't use me ‫as an excuse to stop.

‫Apology accepted.

‫You should rest too.

‫Are you sure about this?

‫I have never been more sure.

‫You want the Knife, don't you?

‫It's alright, you know. ‫You can come out.

‫Hello. I'm Mary. ‫Do you want something to eat?

‫It's no good for you at all, ‫it's full of sugar.

‫I won't tell your parents.

‫I haven't got parents. ‫The Spectres got them.

‫The Spectres?

‫How come they're not getting you, Miss?

‫Can you not even see them?

‫No, we can't see them either, but...

‫Paola.

‫- Hi. ‫- So...

‫you're alone then?

‫The other adults used to look after us,

‫but then they got scared, ‫ran up to the hills.

‫To the mountain. ‫Now the other kids have gone too.

‫You're not from this world, are you?

‫- Like that Lyra girl. ‫- Lyra?

‫- You've seen Lyra? ‫- I don't like her.

‫She did something bad to Tullio.

‫We were trying to kill her, ‫but she escaped.

‫- Was that wrong? ‫- Yes!

‫Everything's wrong here, miss. ‫You'll learn that soon enough.

‫- Where has Lyra gone? ‫- She's with the witch.

‫Miss, can I have a hug?

‫Yeah.

‫Can you stay for a bit? ‫Look after us?

‫If the Spectres aren't getting you, ‫you don't have to go like the others.

‫You can make us have baths ‫and tell us what to do and all that.

‫I've been sent here ‫to do something important.

‫We'll be fine.

‫We've got each other. ‫Come on, Paola.

‫Wait!

‫You shouldn't be here alone. ‫Come with me.

‫I'll bring you to your adults.

‫I'm thinking about my wife and my son.

‫I feel closer to him here.

‫I haven't been back to this world ‫since I left my own.

‫I hadn't even met Sayan Kotor.

‫You don't see your daemon in my world.

‫I'd given up hope of finding a window ‫and getting back to them.

‫Anyway, you're right, I should sleep ‫if I knew I could.

‫I tell you what, ‫why don't we make some coffee instead?

‫Thank you.

‫- Let me help. ‫- Yeah, can you magic us up some fire?

‫One moment.

‫Right.

‫The Knife that Will carries ...

‫the way it's cut him, ‫it's no ordinary cut.

‫It scares me, ‫how he got a weapon this powerful.

‫You think you need to protect me ‫from Will?

‫Will's Knife is amazing.

‫It can be very dangerous ‫if it's in the wrong hands, but...