Newport Cigarettes--3

troyxziybk · Wysłany: Nie 10:52, 27 Mar 2011 Temat postu: Newport Cigarettes--3

"It's Dust,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," Lord Asriel repeated. "It registered as light on the plate because particles of Dust affect this emulsion as photons affect silver nitrate emulsion. It was partly to test it that my expedition went north in the first place. As you see, the figure of the man is perfectly visible. Now I'd like you to look at the shape to his left."
He indicated the blurred shape of the smaller figure.
"I thought that was the man's daemon," said the Enquirer.
"No. His daemon was at the time coiled around his neck in the form of a snake. That shape you can dimly see is a child."
"A severed child-?" said someone,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and the way he stopped showed that he knew this was something that shouldn't have been voiced.
There was an intense silence.
Then Lord Asriel said calmly, "An entire child. Which, given the nature of Dust,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], is precisely the point, is it not?"
No one spoke for several seconds. Then came the voice of the Chaplain.
"Ah," he said, like a thirsty man who, having just drunk deeply,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], puts down the glass to let out the breath he has held while drinking. "And the streams of Dust..."