Lyra's POV. Since I had various ideas about what should be in place, I decided to call it quits as soon as I heard the sound of slashes coming from without. It was something that should never have happened in the first list and I was holding back from doing something that I was going to obviously not regret. It wasn't that I wasn't informed enough but I wanted to have a say in everything that was going on. I also decided that if I was going to be taking a risk I needed to make it as quick as possible. The sound of battle cries was already getting too close for comfort and I would be lying to myself if I was hiding away because at one point I was beginning to feel like there was something wrong. "I need you to recover before you can ever think of fighting for yourself. I'm going to

