The Golden Mirror
The train leaves before the coffee has finished cooling, and you stand on the platform in the gray drizzle of Leeds, holding a brass compass that has lost its north. It is a heavy thing, cold against your palm, its face clouded with decades of use, the needle trembling not toward magnetic polarity but toward some private, exhausted gravity that only you can feel. You are an immigrant in a land...
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