The Golden Compass

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The wind smelled of wet wool and old iron. I sat by the hearth, the fire dying down to a bed of grey ash. My hands shook. Not from cold. From the silence. It was a thick, heavy silence, the kind that presses against the eardrums until they ring. "Are you listening, Thomas?" I looked up. Sir Aldric stood in the doorway. He wore his velvet doublet, the one stained with wine and sweat. His face...

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