Teddybear

Kate gave Lyra a look that might burn through steel with its pure strength of apathy. " Obviously not ," she said, "I'm just as human as you are, you ...

Emily jumped when the second girl spoke and almost lost her grip on gravity. If almost meant she fell off the tree. She hopped back to her feet and extended ...

She shrugged, several curled ribbons bouncing around her shoulders with the motion, "I wish I knew. I mean, I was pretty sure for most of my life that I wouldn't ...

Emily: In appearance, she's a thirteen-year-old girl with waist-length light brown hair that's black at the roots, which can't really be seen beneath her wide-brimmed sunhat. Her skin is dark ...

"How do you know!" He exclaimed. This man didn't know anything. He was just a stranger with blood all over him and a body. The body was probably a bad ...

He sniffled and wiped his face. "Meggie wouldn't break a promise," he insisted, "She wouldn't!"

Kate rolled her eyes, "This is a waste of time," she said, "I'm leaving." She turned to do so. There was nothing more annoying than listening to that stupid duck ...

Eddie puffed up his cheeks, "I'm not dead! Meggie said she would keep me from being dead and she doesn't break promises!"

Eddie shook his head stubbornly, "No! No, the bad guys die. I'm not the bad guy!" He started crying again, wet, sloppy tears that would soon be accompanied by sobs. ...

"She's not in trouble!" Eddie insisted, "She's gonna be right back and she's gonna take me home!" If he was a bad guy he'd be scared of Meggie. All of ...

He hiccuped and choked back a sob, looing up at the man, "You know-" he hiccuped again, "-Meg-rah-rah?" Did this man want to find her and hurt her? Eddie withdrew ...

Eddie instantly wrapped his arms around the man and squeezed him as tightly as he could. "I want Meggie," he sobbed into the man's shirt. There was blood on him. ...

She glared at him. "I was adopted into the Ringly family when I was nearly a year old. I grew up in the Ringly household and I still have the ...

Eddie looked up at the stranger, calming down for a beat. Two beats. He burst back into tears. The new guy could be a bad guy or a good guy, ...

She flinched involuentarily. "I don't have one anymore," she said carefully, "But it used to be Ringly." There was a warning in her voice. She didn't want to hurt him, ...