longing!?!!??!

"If we keep moving towards Lyra," Will said, "will you find us?"

"I shall never lose Balthamos,"  said Baruch, and stepped back.

He leapt into the air, soared swiftly into the sky, and vanished among the scattered stars.  Balthamos was looking after with desperate longing.

~ the Amber Spyglass

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Uwahhhhh  Uruha and Aoi in the Cover ( Read more... )

I see the Master as a man having terrible choices to make; whatever he chooses will do harm, but maybe if he does the right thing, a little less harm will come about than if he chooses wrong. God preserve me from having to make that sort of choice.

~ John Faa, the Golden Compass