“No,” said another voice, and Lyra turned, realizing that there was someone else running just a step behind them. This one was wearing a gas mask, his voice muffled through it, but the timbre and the sharp disapproval in his tone marked him out immediately as Bran.
“I caught Bran making preparations to follow you,” Akira said. “I decided to tag along.”
“And
I caught
you making plans to charge into an underground sewer without informing anyone else,” Bran said - this leveled at Lyra, reproof dripping from every word. “Even supposing you did have a death wish, there are less troublesome ways to go about it.”