Jack Vettriano Dancing Couple

Jack Vettriano Dancing CoupleJack Vettriano BluebirdJack Vettriano Back Where You Belong
"When you told me the shape of my daemon," Mary said, "you said you could teach me how to see him, if we had time...I wish we had."
"Well, we have had at the same time. Try it now."
In Mary's world they had a kind of picture that looked at first like random dots of color but that, when you looked at it in a certain way, seemed to advance into three dimensions: and there in front of the paper would be a tree, or a face, or something else surprisingly solid that simply wasn't there before.
What Serafina taught Mary to do now was similar to that. She had to hold on to her normal way of looking while simultaneously slipping into the trancelike time," Serafina said, "and haven't we been talking? I've taught you some witch-lore, which would be forbidden under the old ways in my world. But you are going back to your world, and the old ways have changed. And I, too, have learned much from you. Now then: when you spoke to the Shadows on your computer, you had to hold a special state of mind, didn't you?""Yes...just as Lyra did with the alethiometer. Do you mean if I try that?""Not only that, but ordinary seeing