"They make babies in test tubes," Lyra pointed out, figuring a test tube wasn't all that different to a lab, after all. "It isn't impossible he's an experiment in human cloning. Not that I'm saying I think that," she added, not because of the skeptical look on Rosario's face, but because in all honesty she didn't think he was a clone, she thought he was some kind of faery.
Did she though? Fuck, it was harder to believe when she wasn't like, actively looking at him, or talking to Avery about it, or lying in her bed thinking. Out in the daylight, side by side with Rosario, walking across a campus, her conviction was struggling to hold up.
So... maybe it was easier to open Rosario's mind to the idea that seemingly impossible things weren't actually totally impossible if she, y'know, lubricated her mind up with science and rigorous debate. "You can't prove he wasn't grown in a lab, though," she stated, looking over at Rosario.
She'd never actually made it to the debate team at school. She'd given a go, because her English teacher thought she could wrangle her tendency not to back down into something productive, but it hadn't exactly worked out. The structure of an argument never appealed to her.