The Golden Compass
The jar sits on the table. It is glass, thick and green, holding a single wren. The bird is dead, or perhaps it is merely sleeping. You do not know. You have held it for three days. The air in the stone hall is still. Dust motes drift in the shafts of grey light that cut through the high window. You watch them. You count them. One, two, three. The wren remains still. Its wings are tucked tight...
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