for lyra’s parents there love of tigers is great but lyra herself is competly petrified of them even though her parents own a tiger enclosure to protect them from poachers and stuff while lyra agrees with that her fear makes her wish they wouldn’t be there. it was a really warm night and lyra couldn’t sleep which was unusual as she was a sound sleper her parents suggested she goes for a walk outside as there is no people watching the tigers this late. She agreed and grabbed a torch. she left the building that she slept in not realising she wouldn’t return she took a few steps and after some steps she almost screamed when she looked in the fountain and almost fainted her head wasn’t human it was a tiger than she saw a light coming from behind her it was her mum saying how did the female tiger get out of the enclousre until she saw her daughters crying eyes and than said she knew this night would happen when lyra would return to her true form and that she was a tiger but was hurt as a cub and that she was changed into a human to give her real body time to heal. Lyra was guided into the enclosure where she spent the rest of her life starting a tiger family.