amirwilson:Will had no idea of the taboo in Lyra’s world preventing one person from touching another
amirwilson:Will had no idea of the taboo in Lyra’s world preventing one person from touching another’s dæmon, and if he hadn’t touched Pantalaimon before, it was politeness that had held him back and not knowledge. Lyra, in fact, was breathtaken. Her dæmon had done it on his own initiative. -- source link