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“I found it in the attic,” Lyra whispered. “Behind the dollhouse.”

Lyra returned the next morning. She found Mr. Pembroke sitting in his favorite chair. He was smiling. His eyes were two new amber drops. And curled across his lap, now the size of a pony, was the wolf. Its fur was made of soft, gray smoke. Its claws were polished bone.

She bit the cherry.

He pressed the gear into a hollow behind the wolf’s ribs.

And somewhere, in a town of buttercream houses, a new song began to play—low, sweet, and hungry. mark ryden wolf

The wolf turned its head toward Lyra. It licked one pearl tooth. Then it extended a paw, not to attack, but to offer.

It was carved from bone—or something that wished it was bone. It was the size of a large tomcat, curled as if asleep. Its fur was not hair, but thousands of tiny, painted eyelashes. Its teeth were seed pearls. And its eyes… its eyes were two drops of amber that seemed to hold a tiny, frozen flame. “I found it in the attic,” Lyra whispered

One Tuesday, a girl named Lyra brought him a box. She was pale and silent, with eyes the color of rain. Inside the box, wrapped in a scrap of crimson velvet, was a wolf.