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“There are camels,” he said.
the Authority never wishes for his creation to be split apart. You were created with a dæmon, and he is somewhere now longing to be reunited with you. When that happens, nature will be restored a little, and the Authority will be happy.”
There’s a surgical operation….Many people survive it now.
When the children grow up, they’re not full citizens, being incomplete.
There are men who can supply a dæmon for those who are without one. It sounds atrocious. It sounds absurd.
They have a dæmon; she, he goes everywhere with them, appears to be close and understanding, but—” “You can tell,” said his own robin dæmon. Her voice was sweet and quiet. “They look disconnected, in some deep way. It’s very disturbing.”
But something rules there, something attracts dæmons, maybe dæmons who’ve been severed and then escaped….It
“There’s nothing simple about going home.” “No,” he said. “It was too easy to say.”
The aim is a modus vivendi which will pass muster in normal social circumstances. The perfect oneness and sympathy that each party has lost, that they had from birth…I would be lying if I said that was always reached. But a sort of satisfactory tolerance and even, in time, affection is certainly possible.”

