The Golden Compass

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The air in the library smelled of damp wool and old paper. It was a scent Elias had known since boyhood, a smell that tasted like the inside of a closed room. He sat at his desk, the wood worn smooth by centuries of elbows. His hands were steady. They were always steady. That was the problem. Elias looked at the map. It was not a map of land. It was a map of bone. "Again," he said. His voice...

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