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Paulo
Paulo can’t sleep, not when he doesn’t know what is happening to Shauna. He can’t try to contact her- not with the Dark Ones listening in. Paulo had tried briefly, but she had put up a wall that was too thick for him to get through. He rolls over again onto his back. Lyra had brought him to a cave she had found on the mountain just across the plain. The roof of the cave arches above him about ten feet. There is a small hole in the ceiling like a rabbit had tried to build a den but too late realized its mistake. It did make a good smoke hole for the tiny fire in the center of the cave.
Lyra lies fast asleep a few feet away; her face is calm and serene. It is like she is able to take all the worries of the day and cast them aside like water rolling over a waterfall. This girl he
