The Golden Compass

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The feast was not a meal. It was a siege. Candlelight bled across the rough-hewn oak table, turning the spilled wine into pools of arterial red. The air hung thick with the smell of roasting pork, damp wool, and the sharp, metallic tang of fear. Thomas sat at the far end, his hands folded in his lap. They were clean hands. Too clean. The other guests, men of the guild and merchants of the city,...

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