Book 1, Chapter 1: This Isn't Like Jordan

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I get this now, press the letters and something anbaric makes them show up on this photogram. Like a projection, only it's a little screen. I saw something like this once, I haven't used one before, but it isn't so hard. The last one I saw was a lot bigger than this one. And this here, they called it a network and said it was for talking to the other people in this big metal dome.

I've been to a lot of places, but never one like this before. They said there was lots of others from different worlds, that right? I haven't really looked around yet, but nobody around here has a daemon, I saw that much. That's not so strange, I've seen people without them. Anyone know how we get here? I'd really like to find out, see, there's still something else that I have to do; and to do it, I really need to know how people can pass through worlds like this. All that stuff about being fake? I don't believe a word of it. People been telling me things all my life and en't half of it's been true.

All the worlds I've been too have been to have been open, and this one's all closed off like something scary's outside. I think something went on in here too.

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Like a soul?

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I guess you could call a daemon that.

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Then we may have shared similar experiences in our worlds. You're a very interesting girl. My name is Rube.

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My name is Lyra Silvertongue, from Jordan College. It's nice to meet you, Rube.

What kind of experiences have you had? what was your world like?

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College? How old are you, Lyra?

My world was relatively normal, though I played a larger part in it than most people. Have you ever heard of grim reapers?

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I'm thirteen, almost fourteen. More like thirteen and a half.

Like Deaths? are someone's Death?

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You're very smart for your age.

Yes. Exactly like Death. Using your terminology, you could say that I don't have a daemon. I find the sound of the world you come from to be very intriguing.

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I am from Jordan College.

You don't have a daemon? that's really frightening, Rube. Don't you get lonely? I mean, my Death didn't have a daemon ... Is it like that?

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Well, I was trying to use your terms. My world didn't have daemons, so perhaps I should say, I don't have a soul. No, I don't miss it. Yes, it's something like that.

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I think I understand ...

The Deaths were I come from were always nice. When you asked for them, they came to you with a soft smile, and they took your hand.

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Yes, that's how it was for us as well. Remains to be seen if it's like that here. Do you miss your world?

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Of course I do, but sometimes it's worth staying in another world. Do people get sick here if they stay too long?

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That remains to be seen as well.

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How long have people from other worlds been coming here?

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I've been here a few months now. There are others who have been here much longer.

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Do you know who they are?

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You ask a lot of questions.

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It's the best way to find out what you want to know.

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Clever.

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You en't gonna tell me?

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I'm afraid I don't know. It's best to ask others.

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I'll find out.

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Thank you for speaking with me, Rube.