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Leonardo da Vinci Head of ChristJohn Singer Sargent A Dinner Table at NightLord Frederick Leighton Leighton Winding the Skein
No. I was a Svalbard bear, but I am not now. I was sent away as a punishment because I killed another bear. So I was deprived of my rank and my and my armor and sent out to live at the edge of the human world and fight when I could find employment at it, or work at brutal tasks and drown my memory in raw spirits."
"Why. He killed someone too and they took all his away. That was long before he got made a prisoner on Svalbard, though. I don't know anything about Svalbard, except it's in the farthest North....Is it all covered in ice? Can you get there over the frozen sea?"
"Not from this coast. The sea is sometimes frozen south of it, sometimes not. You would need a boat."
"Or a balloon, maybe."
"Or a balloon, yes, but then you would need the right wind." did you kill the other bear?""Anger. There are ways among bears of turning away our anger with each other, but I was out of my own control. So I killed him and I was justly punished.""And you were wealthy and high-ranking," said Lyra, marveling. "Just like my father, lorek! That's just the same with him after I was born