The Golden Compass
The brass instrument sits on the desk in the archive, its surface tarnished by forty years of neglect, and it whispers your name, Elias Thorne, in a voice that sounds like dry leaves skittering across pavement. You are forty years old, your hands are cracked from the cold of the boiler room, and you want nothing more than to finish the catalog before the warden reviews your file, for if you do...
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