As Lyra Belacque ran round the corner at Jordan College she heard the footsteps of the servants a little bit behind her, she knew that something like this would happen.

But poor little Lyra couldn't understand why everyone was so mad about it. How was she supposed to know that the window that she broke cost £500, but now she was in a lot of trouble, which she had to think of a way to get out of. Eventually she ran into a room, but couldn't see anywhere to hide or to get out. As the servants finally caught up with her she let out a sigh and said

"Oh Pan, i wish i didn't break that window now! The master won't be happy at all!" But there was nothing that she could do. It was too late, she was already caught, she was surrounded by 5 Servants and their dog dæmons. Lyra didn't struggle or resist when the servants took her by the arms, nor when they took her out of the room, though she did when they took her to the master of Jordan College.

"Now Lyra i am very upset about this." He said pointing to a broken window lying on the floor. "I hope you can explain or else i shall have to punish you.", at this point Lyra was speechless she was just stood there looking like a fool letting out an odd "I..I..." or a "But..." in a low mumble. Eventually the Master spoke again

"Well Lyra I'm sorry but this was the last straw! I'm afraid that the only option left is to send you to an all girls boarding school. Maybe you will make some friends as well, then you won't need to play with those street urchins anymore either." Of course Lyra has something to say to this!

"What?! No, you can't make me! I won't go!" and so on, but it was no use because the master was adamant that this was what was going to happen.

The next day before Lyra was taken to the boarding school, she was talking to Pan. She was whining about being sent there and at one point said

"..I know! I'll run away! Come on Pan just you and me, right now, before we get sent there!" her dæmon Pantalaimon was mumbling and eventually said

"Well..Ok i guess it's better than an all GIRLS boarding school!" and with that they started packing their bags.

When they finished packing, they casually walked to the front door, and acted as if they were waiting to go to the boarding school, but when they got there they just walked straight out of the door and ran away out of the gate. Then they were in the rich area of Oxford. After about 1 hour of wandering they found an abandoned shack, and they laid out some blankets that they had packed, and they slept there for the night.

Back at Oxford it was total Chaos. When the college master was informed he went mad. he was ranting and raving, and when he calmed down he ordered all his servants to go find Lyra. Then he bought some professional trackers to help find her, and he ordered two of his servants to go put up posters telling people to call him if they found her.

The next morning he was getting worried and sent more people to go look for Lyra, when he couldn't stand it anymore he went to go find her himself. But of course it was too hard, nobody could possibly find her, she was always good at hiding, but he didn't think that she would be this good. there were at least 50 people looking for her, and 500 posters up all over Oxford, and a £1000 reward if somebody found her. He couldn't stand it, all of this just because she broke a window.

Three days later Lyra was wandering around the slums and the lakes when she found a group of Gyptian children talking about all the things that were happening over her. When she went over to them they just gave her an odd look and one said, "Is that her? is that Lyra Belacque?" and a few of the other kids mumbled and when one of their parents came over to them to see what all the hubbub was about she just stopped in her tracks, looked around and shouted over the leader of the Gyptians, John Faa.

When John Faa came over he exclaimed "Holy Lord!" and then swore very loudly. After that a big crowd gathered around Lyra and there were lots of murmurs and eventually somebody said "That's her! That's the one they're after, if we hand her in then they'll stop raiding our fleets!" but John Faa knew something about Lyra, and he wasn't going to give her in to Jordan College that easy. He ordered his men to take her into his Living quarters before anyone they didn't want to see her saw her. After a while she grew hungry, and asked these people she hadn't met before if they had any food, and almost instantly they brought her a mini feast, there was chicken, pork, vegetables (which she didn't eat), and there was of course a knife and fork. The tray that is was brought on was beautiful, it was made of silver, and had markings in it.

After Lyra had eaten, and the leftovers were taken away John Faa came in, and said to her

"Lyra, we need to talk, about what is going to be done about this.But first, what are you doing all the way over here?"

"The master tried to make me go to an all girls school! no way me and pan are going there!" Lyra replied.

"Lyra, you have to understand, its not as simple as that, you can't just run away and think its that simple! There are people looking for you, and they suspect us!"

"Well what can i do! I'm not going back just so that he can send me to the all girls boarding school!"

"Oh Lyra..you are very difficult to convince! Oh well ill sort that out later, but for now, you should sleep. I will have my men bring in some clean clothes."

After that John Faa left, and clothes were brought in for her, and so she slept, but with great nightmares of her nights on the streets and of what would happen to her. but still she slept.