Fleur scribbled on a notepad as he spoke, while Fancy Pants paid him rapt attention. Even Lyra was captivated by his telling of the story—some of his details were dry and emotionless, but many of the things he'd noticed had never crossed her mind, and for the first time she began to wonder just how crazy she'd been to actually approach Dale. True, it had turned out well, but to hear him tell it, he could have been about to go into a murderous frenzy at the drop of a shoe.