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And each of them saw their own expression on the other's face. Will remembered that moment for a long time afterward.
"Well, electromagnetism," he went on, looking away. "Sounds like what we call physics, your experimental theology. You want scientists, not theologians."
"Ah," she said warily. "I'll find 'em."
They sat in the a girl of Lyra's age and the other a younger boy, came out of one of the streets leading down to the harbor. They were carrying baskets, and both had red hair. They were about a hundred yards away when they saw Will and Lyra at the café table.
Pantalaimon changed from a goldfinch to a mouse and ran up Lyra's arm to the pocket of her shirt. He'd seen that these new children were like Will: neither of them had a daemon visible.
The two children wandered up and wide clear morning, with the sun glittering placidly on the harbor, and each of them might have spoken next, because both of them were burning with questions; but then they heard a voice from farther along the harbor front, toward the of them looked there, startled. It was a child's voice, but there was no one in sight.Will said to Lyra quietly, "How long did you say you'd been here?""Three days, four—I lost count. I never seen anyone. There's no one here. I looked almost everywhere."But there was. Two children, one
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