Edward Hopper House by the Railroad

Edward Hopper House by the RailroadAmedeo Modigliani the Seated NudeAmedeo Modigliani Seated Nude
monkey was right. She wasn't only hiding Lyra: she was hiding her own eyes.

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Out of the dark the little boy came, hopeful and frightened, whispering over and over:
"Lyra, Lyra, Lyra... "
Behind him there were other figures, even more shadowy than he was, even more silent. They seemed to be of the same company and of the same kind, but they had no faces that were visible and no voices that spoke; and his voice never rose above a They were imprisoned. Someone had committed a crime, though no one knew what it was, or who had done it, or what authority sat in judgment.
Why did the little boy keep calling Lyra's name?
Hope.whisper, and his face was shaded and blurred like something half-forgotten."Lyra... Lyra..."Where were they?On a great plain, where no light shone from the iron-dark sky, and where a mist obscured the horizon on every side. The ground was bare earth, beaten flat by the pressure of millions of feet, even though those feet had less weight than feathers; so it must have been time that pressed it flat, even though time had been stilled in this place; so it must have been the way things were. This was the end of all places and the last of all worlds."Lyra..."Why were they there?