Lyra Valentine was a nobody, always keeping quiet in the back of the classroom. She was just simply different from everyone else and because of it abused by her fellow classmates. But the one question that rang everyday in Lyra's head was how was she different. I mean she wasn't really different from the others but apparently she was for if she wasn't she wouldn't suffer so much. At home it's just the same, abused and neglected by her adoptive parents Lyra has no one. Not even a friend to call her own. But what Lyra has is her drawings, beautiful drawings of the characters from a story she writes of two twin boys with hair the color of darkness and eyes of the ocean. In her story they protect her and are her friends. Being stuck in a fantasy of imagination would suffice for Lyra and no one would tell her otherwise. But when that fantasy turns to a reality she just doesn't know what's real anymore.