When Lyra had met Bastien and Luke, she hadn't ever expected... Well, no, maybe that wasn't quite right. She hadn't even been expecting to meet them when she'd met them. You didn't really expect to meet anyone when you followed a voice in your head to a sewer and used magic to fight some horrible monster.
But still... Even given the absurdity of her general life circumstances lately, she never thought she'd be walking down a seedy alley, following an erratic signal on her GPS.