#RoseField chapter 36. The last one! Just realized the audiobook file ends with a lengthy Pullman interview. There's only about 40 minutes of actual book left.

Lyra got the window big enough for Pan to jump through.

Sudden appearance of Ionedes and Leila! When did they have time to get ahead--

#RoseField chapter 35:

Lyra+Mal get back to the window, just in time for the Magisterium bomb to go off on the far side. Pan watches Olivier stab Delamare to death, because sure, why not.

The suspicions of "you're bringing an army big enough to conquer the other world" come to nothing. Not a--

#RoseField chapter 34, the last of it:

There's a genuinely sweet line where Malcolm thinks something like "accountancy books needed to be tended, as carefully as any rose garden."

And for some people, working with numbers *fulfills* their soul. You should know that, Pullman, you wrote--

#RoseField chapter 34:

Pan reveals himself to Olivier, confronts him about family connections.

Again with the disconnect. Pan says "She's your sister," not "We're your sister" or "I'm your sister."

Olivier: How did you know that?
Pan, who learned it from Olivier's daemon just last--

#RoseField chapter 33, thread 3:

More exploring the Rose World.

More of our heroes jumping to conclusions where I think "that's very plausible, but you are way too sure it's the only explanation for something you saw from a distance, when you haven't even been on this planet a full hour yet."

#RoseField chapter 33, thread 2:

As Lyra+Mal take a walk in the rose world, none of the local humans acknowledge their existence at all. Very effective creepiness! Not the full Camazotz effect, but it has some of the vibe.

Malcolm addresses a surveyor (pigeon daemon), he grunts and shoots them--

#RoseField chapter 33...is over an hour of audiobook time, so I guarantee this will fill multiple threads. Let's knock out one tonight.

The Red Building has a red tiled tool with "turned-up eaves in the Chinese style." All this time, it never occurred to me to picture it that way. But it makes--

#RoseField chapter 32, the test:

Lyra gives more detail about Will and the Subtle Knife. Says it's still in Will's world -- right, readers know he shattered it, but the window was already closed. Nobody ever told Lyra.

She mentions "an angel told us we could only travel using imagination," and--

#RoseField chapter 32:

The Great Merchant has a successor, the new Acting CEO. She's pulling the business together, she's ordering new construction projects, she's got all-new letterhead with the great man's face trademarked as a logo.

Charming Leila shows up, says she used to report to the--

#RoseField chapter 31:

Pan spying on some kind of business meeting near the station. Only partly in English. Five humans, all with their daemons so oddly quiet and uninvolved that Pan wonders if they're severed...but they're still conscious. Substitute daemons, then? Bought to play the roles?