George Bellows Dempsey and Firpo

deeply stricken.
Finally Will and Lyra and their daemons, and Mary and Serafina Pekkala, set off through the empty city. And it was empty; the only footfalls and the only shadows were their own. Lyra and Will went ahead, hand in hand, to the place where . We'll go to my flat, my house, tonight, and then tomorrow we'll go and find out where his mother is, and see what we can do to help her get better. There are so many rules and regulations in my world, Serafina; you have to satisfy the authorities and answer a thousand questions; I'll help him with all the legal side of things and the social services and housing and all that, and let him concentrate on his mother. He's a strong they had to part, and the women stayed some way behind, talking like sisters."Lyra wants to come a little way into my Oxford," Mary said. "She's got something in mind. She'll come straight back afterwards.""What will you do, Mary?""Me, go with Will, of course