The Golden Compass

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The cold was a living thing. It had teeth. It gnawed at the stone walls of the tower and seeped through the wool of my tunic. I was twelve years old. My hands were small. They shook. I held the compass. It was not a map of north and south. It was a map of breath. Of blood. Of the end. My father lay in the high chamber. The King of Ashworth. He was dying. The plague had come with the winter...

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