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Lyra gasped and stared with wide eyes at the lady who had appeared. She wasn't from Ba-Ba's court... But then, who was she?
When the stranger showed her kindness the little girl latched upon it, showing her scraped knee. "I was looking for Ba-Ba and my bunny ran away and then I felled down!" Lyra sobbed like it was the end of the world, which in her mind it was. "It hurts! It hurts! I want Ba-Ba!"

The human child's tears were making the trees loom almost menacingly overhead. If the stranger was harming the child, they would carry the report to the King of Summer himself.

Lyra hugged her legs, looking very small and pitiful. Ba-Ba had told her not to wander away from court. She had not listened. Now, even though she wanted him desperately to cuddle her and make her hurts go away, she was also scared about being in trouble. Would he yell at her? Would he be really mad? Would he put her in the cage with the spikes around it like the one the bad hobgoblin was in? It was enough to make her shake uncontrollably with fear.