Chapter Two: Red Cross Recruits

Lyra had been traveling on the same train for two days and she is getting very board. On the trip she wrote a letter to Lysa. Lyra has decided to go back over it.

     Dear Lysa,

  I have missed you so much. I wish

 you were with me on this train to D.C. It

 is so boring. If you see Danny again tell

 him that I still like him. I have to go now,

 the train is pulling into the station and I

 have to meet a medic so I can go to the

 recruits' room. Bye

Love

Lyra

 Lyra puts the letter in the envelope and seals it. The train starts to pull into the station. Lyra gathers most of her things and walks off the train. She looks around for a second, and then a medic comes to her.

         "New recruits?" asked the medic.

         "Yes," Lyra said.

         "Come with me," Ordered the medic.

         Lyra followed the medic to a great hall.

         "Wait here," the medic said.

         The medic left as Lyra waited. Lyra looked around. The hall was big. It had a satin glass window on the roof. It had wooden walls and many doors, plenty of people, some hairs and desks.

         The medic came back sometime later with a nurse near Lyra's age, maybe a year younger then Lyra but she acted a year older.

         "Betty will take you to the recruit room," said the medic and then he left.

         "So you're the new recruit everyone is talking about." Betty said.

         "I am?!" Lyra said sounding very confused.

         "Yeah silly. We don't get many recruits around here, but we will when we get into this war, if we do." Betty replied.

         "Oh" Lyra said feeling better.

         "So what's you name Hun?"

         "Lyra"

         "Do you like Lyra or Lya?"

         "Doesn't mater to me."

         "Okay then, come with me Lya, by the way my name is Betty." Betty told Lyra.

         Lyra followed Betty to the recruit room. On the way they talked some more.

         "So Lyra, Where you from?" Betty asked eagerly.

         "Tennessee. East side," Lyra told her.

         "Really?!" Betty said amazed, "I know two fly boys from Tennessee."

         "You do?" said Lyra shocked.

         "Yah silly, anyway did you have a boyfriend back in Tennessee?" Betty asked.

         "Yeah I did, before I moved," Lyra said, "But we moved to the east side in the middle of my Senior year and I have not seen him for about a year in a half."

         "I'm sorry"

         "That's okay."

         "What was his name?" Betty really wanted to know about Lyra's old boyfriend back in Tennessee.

         "His name was Danny. He was the sweetest boy I knew, and my best friend back home had a crush on his Best Friend.

         "Wow! Well one of the flyboys name is Danny. Maybe it is the same."

         "He is, I mean he could be"

         "Yeah." Betty said, "Well here we are the recruits room. I'll talk to you later bye"

         "Bye Betty"

         "Bye Lyra"

 As Betty left the works Betty said kept, running through Lyra's head. Flyboy from Tennessee is named Danny. Then she thought a minute. Could that Danny be the same as the Danny that she knows?