The Golden Compass
The iron gates did not creak. They slid open with a silence that felt like a held breath, releasing us into the courtyard where the ivy had strangled the stone. I was a prisoner of my own guilt, or so I believed. I carried the weight of a crime I could not name, a sin that had curdled the air around my lungs. My wife, Elara, walked beside me. Her hand was cold in mine. We did not speak. We did...
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