The Golden Compass

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The soup was thick with marrow and silence. We sat in the long room of the White House, a place that smelled of wet wool and old copper, and I watched the steam rise from my bowl in slow, ghostly spirals. My sister, Elara, sat across from me. She did not eat. She only watched the broth, her fingers wrapped tightly around the handle of her spoon, knuckles white as bone. "Drink," she said. Her...

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