Ragi flies above Lyra and hides on roofs to avoid suspicion. In the evening, Lyra escapes from St Sophia's School and leads Ragi from outside Jordan College ( Turl Street) to Juxon Street where Sebastian Makepeace lives. Lyra cleverly figures out where to find him and that he is the last remaining alchemist, and promises Ragi to bring him to the alchemist after school. Lyra saves the dæmon, called Ragi, from the flock, and he urges Lyra to help him find a man called Sebastian Makepeace. This dæmon must be a witch's because there is no human near. Lyra is looking at a flock of birds from the tower of Jordan College in her Oxford, when she notices that the birds are attacking what turns out to be a dæmon in the shape of a fellow bird. It's hard to tell.' 'Lyra and the Birds' plot summary

The other things might be connected with the story, or they might not they might be connected to stories that haven't appeared yet. 'This book contains a story and several other things. The postcard contains four images of sites in the His Dark Materials trilogy: the physics lab in which Mary Malone works, the house occupied by Lord Boreal, the row of hornbeam trees where Will first discovered a window between the worlds, and the bench where Lyra and Will have pledged to visit each other in spirit once a year. Two pages from a Baedeker published in Lyra's world (including entries for the Eagle Ironworks, the Oxford Canal, the Fell Press and the Oratory of St Barnabas the Chymist, all in the Jericho area of Lyra's Oxford), a postcard from the character Mary Malone, and a brochure for the cruise ship Zenobia are also included. It also includes some advertisements for books and travellers' catalogues. A fold-out map of 'Oxford by Train, River and Zeppelin' is bound in the book, a fictional map of the Oxford that exists in Lyra's world. The book consists mainly of an illustrated short story, 'Lyra and the Birds'. Lyra's Oxford is set when Lyra Belacqua is 15, two years after the end of the trilogy. Lyra's Oxford is a 2003 novella by Philip Pullman depicting an episode involving the heroine of His Dark Materials, Pullman's best-selling trilogy.

Lyra's Oxford by Philip Pullman