The Golden Compass
The rain did not fall so much as it seeped, a cold, gray mist that clung to the stone of the keep and the wool of your cloak. You stood on the high battlements of Austerly, the wind tearing at your tunic, and you held the compass. It was not a gold thing, not in the way the bards sang of it. It was tarnished brass, pitted by years of thumbs and sweat, the face cracked down the center like a dry...
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