Lyra's P.O.V
" Hey, shining star? " I was lying beside my parent's decapitated bodies, cursing, and a crying mess without any care to the world, when I heard a not-so-familiar voice calling me by my nickname which my mom used to call me by. The once familiar and sweet name brought hot tears to my eyes and I lifted my face to look at my mom's dead body and felt my heartbeat stop in the realization that I was never going to hear her call me her shining star ever again. The radiant and beautiful smile that usually accompanied her beautiful face would only be memories.
With anger, bitterness, and loss, I lunged at the intruder, blaming him for everything, for my parent's death, for the separation, and for calling me by my mom's favorite nickname.
" How dare you? How dare you show your fac
