Post by T!mxthy on Jul 18, 2006 16:13:34 GMT -5
This fanfic is from 'The Goldan Compass.' enjoy!
Prologue
Thomas Parry was an unusual thirteen-year-old boy.
He disliked the company of others and seldom ventured outdoors, save for the occasional outing with his mother, Lyra Parry. Instead, he would spend hours in his bedroom, reading or gazing sadly down upon the busy city street, his grey fox daemon sitting quietly beside him.
That was another matter that added to Thomas’s oddness---his daemon.
Feralds had never once changed forms, unlike all the other children’s daemons, who continually changed shapes up until their humans reached puberty.
Then there was the fact thatThomas liked to spend his time reading papers his mother had written. She was a well-known aletheometerist and had published several important articles on topics such as the nature of Dust (an elementary particle) and the highly debated possibility of other worlds.
His mother didn’t mind. Surely, she thought, he would lose interest in boring scientific papers and go find something else to do. This, however, was not the case; the more Thomas read the more his curiosity grew.
One night while Thomas was digging through a stack of papers he found an article that interested him greatly. It was titled ‘The Disappearance of the Aurora.’ It dated back thirty years and was written not by his mother but by a scientist named Henry Alden.
The article spoke of something called ‘The Northern Lights’ and how they had one day simply vanished. It was around the same time that the earths polarity and weather conditions had been irregular, causing severe flooding and a mysterious mist that drifted down from the north. According to the article, the weather and polarity returned to normal after the Aurora vanished. This puzzled Thomas. Had the Northern Lights been causing the abnormalities? Surely not; the Aurora had been around a long time before the irregularities started.
What, then, had caused these happenings?
“’Ralds, what do you think of this?” said Thomas laying the paper down beside her. She quickly scanned the paper, her large brown eyes darting about the page. Finally, she said, “I dunno what this means. Perhaps your mother might--”
“No!” snapped Thomas, grabbing the paper and shoving it in his pocket, “she’d think we were silly! Or worse, she might tell us not to read her papers anymore!” He ran a hand through his shaggy brown hair.
Feralds curled up beside him. She said, “Then we’ll just have to figure this out ourselves.”
Thus saying, the two set off on their quest for knowledge of the disappearance of the Aurora, unaware of the multitudes of invisible particles swirling around them.
Prologue
Thomas Parry was an unusual thirteen-year-old boy.
He disliked the company of others and seldom ventured outdoors, save for the occasional outing with his mother, Lyra Parry. Instead, he would spend hours in his bedroom, reading or gazing sadly down upon the busy city street, his grey fox daemon sitting quietly beside him.
That was another matter that added to Thomas’s oddness---his daemon.
Feralds had never once changed forms, unlike all the other children’s daemons, who continually changed shapes up until their humans reached puberty.
Then there was the fact thatThomas liked to spend his time reading papers his mother had written. She was a well-known aletheometerist and had published several important articles on topics such as the nature of Dust (an elementary particle) and the highly debated possibility of other worlds.
His mother didn’t mind. Surely, she thought, he would lose interest in boring scientific papers and go find something else to do. This, however, was not the case; the more Thomas read the more his curiosity grew.
One night while Thomas was digging through a stack of papers he found an article that interested him greatly. It was titled ‘The Disappearance of the Aurora.’ It dated back thirty years and was written not by his mother but by a scientist named Henry Alden.
The article spoke of something called ‘The Northern Lights’ and how they had one day simply vanished. It was around the same time that the earths polarity and weather conditions had been irregular, causing severe flooding and a mysterious mist that drifted down from the north. According to the article, the weather and polarity returned to normal after the Aurora vanished. This puzzled Thomas. Had the Northern Lights been causing the abnormalities? Surely not; the Aurora had been around a long time before the irregularities started.
What, then, had caused these happenings?
“’Ralds, what do you think of this?” said Thomas laying the paper down beside her. She quickly scanned the paper, her large brown eyes darting about the page. Finally, she said, “I dunno what this means. Perhaps your mother might--”
“No!” snapped Thomas, grabbing the paper and shoving it in his pocket, “she’d think we were silly! Or worse, she might tell us not to read her papers anymore!” He ran a hand through his shaggy brown hair.
Feralds curled up beside him. She said, “Then we’ll just have to figure this out ourselves.”
Thus saying, the two set off on their quest for knowledge of the disappearance of the Aurora, unaware of the multitudes of invisible particles swirling around them.