The Cure - His Dark Materials

CHAPTER SIX

"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be satisfied"

|THE MULEFA'S COUNTER ATTACK

WORLD OF LYRA

"I don't know why they insist on sending us here..."

Their partner looks on blankly, leaning against a corner wall, unhappy at being made to wait.

"That's Margot's fault, if she wasn't so dumb and ambitious we wouldn't be cleaning up after her right now."

"After all, who are we waiting for?" the other asks, scratching his chin.

"A healer; the Magisterium was against his unorthodox methods. He was expelled from several countries for this. But they want to find the knife at all costs, that's why they hired him to take care of the professor's daughter, to get her whereabouts. " explains the man as if he were telling a story, crossing his arms.

"I don't understand the importance of that knife, we already have the passages to the other worlds under our control... " ponders the partner, even if it doesn't make any difference in his work what his superiors do or not with that knife.

"There's more to this story..."

"Like this?"

"Margot knows a lot more than she tells us. the first man says in secret, lowering his voice. Your partner leans in to listen interested " Kind of weird isn't it? For someone who only has the task of collecting children from the colonies, she is very involved in these other things.

"They're putting her in charge of all searches... something she did to earn that many free passes..."

The two are silent after that, just looking around, still waiting.

"I think Father Agenor should give up that professor, he won't get anything out of her, not even curing the brat." says one of them, and the other nods.

"If there's a cure, that healer must be just a..."

"Good afternoon, gentlemen."

The two spun around when they saw the man standing behind them, motionless.

"Don't do that again, old man!"

The newcomer looks in surprise at his daemon, a white cat, and then at the men again.

"Now, I didn't mean to scare you gentlemen. There is no need for you to be rude." The two men exchange irritated glances.

"Who are you?" asks one of them.

"I'm Dr. Grey, I believe they were already expecting me."

They both look him up and down with a lot of contempt, but they don't question it.

"Let's go then?"

"Listen, tend to the girl and that's all, don't do your abominations any more than is necessary to heal the child. If you're capable of it."

The doctor smiles kindly.

"Take me to the girl and we'll see."

They walk a short distance of two blocks, where the houses had a very similar construction pattern.

They finally arrive at their destination, at the second house on the street, and the two men stop, in front of the doctor, impatiently knocking on the door. Some time passes and nothing, and there they go knocking again, but everything remains silent, and they knock a third time, until Mrs. Thormy sounds from inside.