"Yeah you... looked after me when I nearly died and listened to my stories of crazy parental abandonment," Lyra said, giving his hand a squeeze back. "It ain't too heavy."
He was okay, Lyra decided, finishing her scan of him. She was pretty sure he was okay. Things with him and Thalia seemed pretty solid, a lotta fun. The John stuff, that was all in the past, where it could stay, and she was gonna kick her mom stuff into the past where it could stay, too. Somehow she was gonna do that.