A Drop of Water to a Miniature Person
“Are there big people on your world, or are they all small like you?” Lyra said.
“We know how to deal with big people,” Tialys replied, not very helpfully, and went to talk quietly to the Lady. They spoke too softly for Lyra to hear, but she enjoyed watching them sip dewdrops from the marram grass to refresh themselves. Water must be different for them, she thought to Pantalaimon: imagine drops the size of your fist! They’d be hard to get into; they’d have a sort of elastic rind, like a balloon.
Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass (2002-09-30)
Notes
Would have an elastic rind from the surface tension that would need to be broken before drinking.
References
- The Amber Spyglass Book
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Categories
People, places and things
- Lyra Person
- marram grass Geographic Feature
- Tialys Person
- Pantalaimon Person
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Keywords
elastic rind, surface tension, marram grass, Miniature Person, big people, Lyra, Water, Tialys, Drop, fist, drinking, sort