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Your friend, he ain' afraid of Specters?"
"Will en't afraid of anything," Lyra said. "Nor'm I. What you scared of cats for?"
"You don't know about cats?" the oldest boy said incredulously. "Cats, they got the devil in them, all right. You got to kill every cat you see. They bite you and put the devil in you too. And what was you doing with that big pard?"
She realized a hand and grabbed a fistful of air, crowing, "I got one now!"
"They can't hurt you," one of the boys said. "So we can't hurt them, all right."
"And there's always been Specters in this world?" said Lyra.
"Yeah," said one boy, but another said, "No, they came a long time ago. Hundreds of years."
"They came because of the Guild," said the third.
"The what?" said Lyra.he meant Pantalaimon in his leopard shape, and shook her head innocently."You must have been dreaming," she said. "There's all kinds of things look different in the moonlight. But me and Will, we don't have Specters where we come from, so we don't know much about 'em.""If you can't see 'em, you're safe," said a boy. "You see 'em, you know they can get you. That's what my pa said, then they got him.""And they're here, all around us now?""Yeah," said the girl. She reached out