I always love the "redone after x years" -pictures, because they show how far you can get with ambition and hard workand it inspires me to keep practicing as well, especially if the improvement is as big as in your caseIt's a gorgeous picture altogether and a real well of tranquility emotionwise and I just adore the way you drew Lyra.Especially her eyes are exceptionally well done and their shine really makes her come to lifeI also love how you did the aurora and the amazing snow effects on the ground, which give the picture a kinda mystical touchThe only thing, where I could see improvement is the snowfall, because even though there are plenty of big flakes for the foreground,the background should be a bit more densly packed with smaller ones, in my opinion. It also seems kind of odd, that there are no such snow flakes in the lower half of the picture.It's not that big of a problem though and I understand, that it would have taken a lot of additional work to put so many tiny dots in the background.I have to ask however, whether it was intentional, that Lyra seems to be on a mountain top, or if that's just my interpretation,because it really seems like that, the way the mountains are so low and the trees disappear behind the snowy street.