"You've been a bit down these past two days."
"I have a lot on my mind."
"Lyra, you have to cheer up, you can't be like this every day."
Mikel Anderson said this as he worked on something.
As Lyra listened, she noticed something was off about Mikel's words, and she saw that Mikel was making her a bird's nest. Suddenly, the missing piece in her mind connected, and she tentatively asked, "…you know?"
"Know what?" Mikel turned his head, a puzzled look on his face.
Lyra recalled the bag she had brought back when she left – the one she had taken from Mikel's wardrobe containing her medical report and the medication prescribed by the doctor! She had left it on the sofa and then went to play with the Tibetan mastiffs.
Did Mikel open the bag and see the contents when she wasn't paying attention?
