Lyra breathed out slowly, "when I was very young I nearly drowned in a riverboat incident...I have had a fear of open water since..." She breathed in softly and curtseyed to the two of them who remained, "When I saw your Lake I nearly died of fright...that coupled with being lost in a very new place...and no offence to you because you have been so very kind to me...but when I first arrived I was quite wary of you all...I feel more relaxed now...I just I thought..." She couldn't say it, how could she admit to these kind young men that she had been so terrified of the possibility of their being monsters or murderers of some kind. "If you would be so kind as to guide me...perhaps I would feel safer walking with one of you..." she looked between the two boys, her eyes now glowing blue and purple again as they always had but had been turned gray due to being filled with terror, she reached up and took off the hat her mother had insisted made her dress, and let her long solid white hair flow out over her shoulder, "See even more relaxed..." She looked less shaken now but she still had that glow of suspicion in those galaxy colored eyes.