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half-hour or so beyond doubt and belief altogether. Something had happened, and she was galvanized.
She switched off the detector and the amplifier. Then she bypassed all the safety codes and formatted the hard disk, was effectively demolished.
She crammed some papers from a drawer into her briefcase, and finally took down the poster with the I Ching hexagrams and folded it away in her pocket. Then she switched off the light and left.
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They were both silent now. He hadn't finished. A great puzzlement was slowing Lyra's heartbeat and making the room very still.
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One was that of the clouds, driven across the moon in one direction, and the other was that of the stream of Dust, seeming to cross it in quite another.
And of the two, the Dust was flowing more quickly and at much greater volume. In fact, the whole sky seemed to be flowing the sraf, which had nurtured their lives and their world for thirty-three thousand years, had begun to fail just over three hundred years ago.
According to Will, the Guild of the Torre degli Angeli, the owners of the subtle knife, had been careless; they hadn't always closed the windows with it, a great inexorable flood pouring out of the world, out of all the worlds, into some ultimate emptiness.Slowly, as if they were moving themselves in her mind, things joined up.Will and Lyra had said that the subtle knife was three hundred years old at least. So the old man in the tower had told them.The mulefa had told her that