Durmstrang

A cacophony of owls descended upon the cold wood tables, among the organized chaos was a black vulture. Lyra held up her arm in waiting, not bothering to try to pick Ares out of the feathered swarm. Long talons enclosed her arm, softened by thick fur-lined gloves, the hall was too dark and drafty to stay heated for long. She murmured to her pet, stroking his beak before she bothered to read the letter he almost dropped in her soup. She soon gave in to her curiosity, Mortimer rarely wrote to her, and she had no foreign friends to speak of. The letter was brief, the script precise and spidery; 
You will be transferring to Hogwarts School of Witcraft and Wizardry for your third year onwards, I will collect you in a week. M. 
Lyra bristled, huffing discreetly, he never much elaborated his decisions to her, though she knew better than to speak her annoyances to him. This was the last week of school before the summer, and the Institute was still somehow filled with gloom as if the Summer had not arrived. Lyra's thoughts itched and swirled with ideas, why now, why so suddenly, what changed, and what was so wrong she needed to return to Yorwyn, the home she had not seen since she was seven and sent away. She'd had two good years here, made friends, made a name for herself, where she was just a talented witch, no strings to her name. At Hogwarts, she would be Lyra Blackwood, daughter of a crazed murderer, ward of a teacher, she would not be seen for herself. It was never intentional, but it was as if she had hidden herself from her name, her family, all pressures but the ones Mortimer placed on her. Her guardian would soon regret his interference in her pseudo-paradise, after all, who was he to command her return after banishing her as a child. She had been on her own for so long, she would not make it easy for anyone to control her now that she'd had a taste of freedom. Her brow furrowed harshly, she neatly folded the letter, and lit it aflame with a whisper. "Come, Ares, let us start our goodbyes."
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