The Golden Compass
The ink bled into the parchment with a viscosity that defied the dryness of the air, spreading in tendrils that mimicked the veins of a dying leaf, and I watched the symbol take shape with a detachment that felt less like observation and more like the slow, inevitable erosion of a cliff face by the sea. We were in the lower archives of the St. Jude’s Institute for the Preservation of Arcane...
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