The Golden Compass
The rain had not stopped for three days, and it was not the kind of rain that cleansed the air but the kind that settled into the bones, a cold, persistent ache that mirrored the throbbing in my father’s temples. We were on the road to the coast, a long, winding stretch of gravel that seemed to stretch endlessly into the gray horizon, my father’s horse, a tired old mare named Bess, pulling our...
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