Lyra braced herself for what she knew waited for her within the dormitory. She curled her fingers tight around Pan's hair, hanging on, but not enough to hurt him. Taking a deep breath, she stepped inside.
"Hey look, it's Looney Lyra! How was your little visit with your lover? Does he have a new look? Oh, that's right, he's INVISIBLE! Ha-haa-ha!" Lyra had never considered herself a lousy judge of character until a couple of years ago. Freshman year she had made friends with a girl named Mayann who had been sympathetic. Lyra had, late one night, been so overcome that she told Mayann everything. She told the entire school and now Lyra was friendless and considered to be crazy. After the girls had gotten tired of taunting the girl who never responded and always had a stubborn, yet eerily strong expression about her roundish face, Lyra was mostly left alone. Except for this day each year, that is. The price of meeting Will was taking extra classes and being made fun of mercilessly.
"Why don't you just go to another world, freak? Go on, fly away!" Lyra liked to think that she wouldn't have trusted Mayann these days, but she couldn't know. Although she was large and intimidating (she was captain of the field hockey team), Her face was kind and welcoming.
Suddenly, there was a great sound at the door, like the sound of someone very strong attempting to knock but in effect nearly breaking down the door. Thankful for a distraction, however frightening, Lyra rushed to the door and flung it aside. Waiting patiently as a great dog on the other side was...
...Iorek Byrnison.
Sorry for the randomosity of the updates. I'm now an overloaded 8th Grader.