His Dark Mother

[jenny_ravenclaw]

Catherine wrote:
 
> > Her Daemon always scared me - very sinister, enigmatic and 
ruthless - a mirror of Mrs Coulter perhaps, but to me more so.  I 
could never figure out why until I realised - you never, ever hear him 
speak.>

Amy responded with:
 
> I never realized that!  I did notice another thing, though:  you 
> never learn his name.>

Did we ever hear others' daemons speak?  I think I remember daemons 
only being heard by their people.  We know that touching someone 
else's daemon is bad; I thought that speaking directly to or listening 
to someone else's daemon wasn't the right thing to do either, 
according to Pullman.

I agree though, that Mrs. Coulter's monkey daemon was nearly 
terrifying.  How clearly can you picture that golden-furred monkey?  I 
can see that hideous thing as clearly as though it might walk into my 
living room at any moment.

--jenny from ravenclaw, who'd like to think that my cat can take on 
that nasty monkey any day ********************************