Lyra did want to get straight into the work, but Will made his coffee scalding hot, and she still had most of a mug to down. It was a good a chance as any to ask one of the questions she had stored up. How much of me ending up here is luck, and how much of it is me?
Well, not in so many words. "Yeah... if you don't mind: you said you hadn't had an apprentice for a long time and, what was it? That made you wanna take a chance on me? Just that I'm Patrick's kid?"