Rosario squinted dubiously. Lyra was one of her favourite people in the world, but she had kind of a tendency to latch onto the shiniest idea before looking to see if it had any weight, and when she did, it was up to Rosario to reel her back into dry land. "Well, he's gotta have a mom, he wasn't grown in a lab," she pointed out. "She could be international, I mean, his dad's been in Dubai for years."
Avery might be half-right about the silence part, though. Indoctrination was a reach, but the old boys' network looked after each other.