Chapter Thirty-Five, Over the Hills and Far Away Summary

As Lyra and Will prepare to go and look for their daemons, Mary cannot help but worry about the man with the gun. When Mary tells them, Lyra thinks he is just a traveler who has stumbled into this world, like Will's father. Mary makes the children promise they will not go into the trees because the man could be hiding there. They promise to be careful and off they go, armed with a picnic lunch.

Will and Lyra talks about looking for their daemons, about going home, about how daemons cannot live for long in any other world that the one they come from. Will has questions about daemons, and Lyra explains that they settle when their humans grow up. Will says he is used to hiding and...