The Golden Compass
The rain hammered the slate roof like a thousand small fists. I was bleeding. The blade had slipped, cutting deep into my forearm, and the blood mixed with the mud on the floor of the cellar. It was red and hot and smelled of iron. I did not scream. I bit down on a strip of leather until I tasted the salt of my own mouth. Outside, the wind howled through the eaves, a low, mournful sound that...
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