Lyra leaned against the wall of Professor Shackleton's door and waited to speak to her. The last words she heard as she was shutting the door was the professor asking about her dear uncle, Fabian. She placed her head in her hands as that was not the right thing to hear as she only hoped that was not something else to add to her problems, but Fabian was now her biggest concern.

She knew that Vindictus mumbled something after the professor spoke but she didn't hear. Tears began to fall as her thoughts turned into worrying and more stress. Her uncle was one of the two people who meant everything to her, Christian being the other.