“Oh—you’ve just put on the best display I’ve ever seen, that’s all,” said Dr. Malone. “What were you doing? What were you thinking?” “I was thinking you could get it clearer than this,” Lyra said. “Clearer? That’s the clearest it’s ever been!” “But what does it mean? Can you read it?” “Well,” said Dr. Malone, “you don’t read it in the sense of reading a message; it doesn’t work like that. What’s happening is that the Shadows are responding to the attention that you pay them. That’s revolutionary enough; it’s our consciousness that they respond to, you see.”
