The Golden Compass
The bellows of the forge did not breathe; they screamed. A rhythmic, metallic gasp that sucked the air from the lungs of the room and expelled it as a wall of orange heat, settling over the shoulders of the woman who stood before the anvil with the stillness of a statue carved from cold iron. She was Margaret, though the title she held was that of the Guild’s Master Smith, a rank that had been...
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