"Of course you're not!" Lyra snapped it with a ferocity intended to scare the shit outta everything in Rosario's head that was ganging up on her right now. She'd always been pretty good at that, storming up to the bullies that were giving Rosario a hard time, laying the smackdown. A little harder to do when the problem was with reality itself, but that wasn't gonna stop her.
Shooing her own concerns aside, she dragged her chair closer, wrapped her arms around Rosario and gave her a tight, armored squeeze. "I gotchu," she muttered stubbornly over Rosario's shoulder. "I gotchu tighter than the bullshit does."