Just want you! By lighthope1
Lyra finished dinner, served her, and Pan. She yawned and looked out at the dark night wondering when all this bad weather would clear. She knew from experiences that this would last for days to weeks, but she desperately did not want it to end. She knew she would have to check up on her neighbor Ms. Reilly tomorrow the poor old women was so frail and Lyra knew the women couldn't survive with out company. Lyra motioned Pan with her eyes to follow her to the bedroom and lay in the covers to asleep.
Will and Kirjava faired out most the storms, in the company of strangers. As Will rode his bike, young children on the farms, on clear gloomy days, would run after his bike shouting and hollering. Will would salute to them and show off his skills. Kirjava would watch him, moving her head and waiting for Will to come to his senses. Kirjava moved gracefully as Will did his jumps and turns for the farm children. She would jump gracefully, in low laying trees, and watch Will. She saw him actually smiling and laughing for the first time and what seemed like years. He was still young but had grown up to soon when Lyra was closed off from him.
Will did one last trick for the children and whistled for her. There journey began again and she ran after his bike. Will had learned never to give up one day for granite because someday it would not there to spend because you would be dead.
Lyra woke early to a clear sky. She smiled and ushered Pan to follow her to make breakfast for her and Ms. Reilly. She placed the basket near the door and walked to her room to change into something more cleanly. Her heavy boots clanked on the wooden floor as Lyra opened her cottage door and allowed Pan to climb up on her shoulder. She grabbed the basket and headed down her road to Ms. Reilly's place. The wind off the ocean felt great and the shinning sun made her skin glow. Pan sat on her shoulder clingy into her shirt with his fingers chattering away in her ear. She said, "Pan, This is why I love living here. Look around us."
Ms. Reilly stood at her door waiting for Lyra with a grateful grin on her face. The old woman was wrapped up in a dark skirt and top with her partner Mouska beside her. Mouska's tail wagged as he saw Lyra coming over the ridge that separated both properties. Mouska ran to meet Pan who had already jumped from Lyra's shoulder.
Both chattered back to each other and then fallowed Lyra into the small house.
Ms. Reilly put some tea on and sat next to the small fire. "Now Lyra, How is the town doing?" the old women asked.
Lyra licked her lips and smiled, "All's well in Herthbrook, same old fights and all the folks in huffs."
Ms. Reilly looked at the fire and said, "Darling, why not you move into town?" Lyra looked over at Pan and said, "I like it out here. I couldn't leave you either."
Ms. Reilly laughed, "Child, you can't use me as an excuse. You need to start you life, fall in love and that sort."
Lyra looked from Pan to Mouska. "I need to go Ms. Reilly. Thanks for the advice." Lyra grabbed all the extra food, placed it in Ms. Reilly's cabinets, and then whistled to Pan to warn time to go. Ms. Reilly stood and let Mouska follow them out and then went back to his old friend. Lyra walked the long way home, the small winding road that led by the cliffs to allow her to think more. Pan could feel that she was having a difficult time with her mind by her body heat levels.
Will and Kirjava had stopped in the small town called Herthbrook. It had maybe h two hundred people tops in total population. Will stopped at the small Shoppe near the entrance of Herthbrook. He got off his bike and walked with Kirjava into the store. An old man worked behind the main desk; he was hunched over with pencil and paper in hand. His partner was a small lizard that sat on its belly in the strip of sun light in the main window. Kirjava went to look at the creature and Will talked to the old man.
"Excuse me; can you help me find someone?" Will asked.
The man looked up from his list and pushed his glasses farther up his nose. "Depends who it is. I might know this individual."
Will placed his arms on the table and clenched harder then he had expected. "I wanted to find a girl, I mean women named Lyra."
"So you're a friend of Lyra's? Well than, my name is Roger." The man said.
Roger held out his hand for Will, who took it and then released it and said, "You must be from the big city. Therefore, you are a true city boy, big and grand oxford boy. You must be exhausted and with these showers lately the ride must of have been rather rough." Will nodded and asked, "So where is Lyra?"
The man laughed softly, "She was in a few days ago for some groceries and headed home. The storms kept her away from town, she can live on her own I know that very well but she lives farther north on the hawk cliffs with Ms. Reilly. You head on the north road and you will not miss her cottage. I would show you myself but I and Lin are getting rather old and we have the Shoppe to tend too." Will thanked the man again and called out to Kirjava to go to the bike.
The motor blared and the people on the street looked up in pure amazement. He got on the bike and headed for the north road.
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Lighthope1
