Lyra walked into the office, glad to see that it wasn't as full of students as Professor Bunbury's was. "Hello Professor Truebridge," she said, "I just wanted to introduce myself. My name is Lyra Kant and I'm a first year.

She looked around the office, particularly taken aback by the bookshelf, which, oddly for a history professor, was conspicuously barren of books. When she noticed what some of the pictures were of, however, her stomach gave a little leap. 'Dragons!' She wanted to ask so many questions about them, but didn't know where to begin. Or if it would be OK to ask, since her curiosity wasn't a hundred percent academic based.