femgenficathon

Title: Days Are Passing By
Author: noblealice
Fandom: His Dark Materials
Character: Lyra Silvertongue
Rating: PG
Warnings: None
Prompt: #26 "We can never go back again, that much is certain. The past is still too close to us. The things we have tried to forget and put behind us would stir again, and that sense of fear, of furtive unrest...might in some manner unforeseen become a living companion, as it had before." --Daphne Du Maurier
Summary: Lyra lives in a world of memories, afraid to fully engage with the present. She is slowly healing, forgetting her promise to Will and instead retreating within herself. It takes the interference of the Church to wake her from her hesitancy to participate in life.
Spoilers: for all three books in the HDM trilogy (Northern Lights/The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass) and Lyra’s Oxford
Author's Notes: Title is from the lyrics of Diane Birch’s song "Rewind". Apologies, this is un-beta'd and all mistakes are my own. More notes at the end of the fic.
Word Count: 6,000+

( Lyra and Pantalaimon are left to go forward simply because they are not allowed to go back )