The Golden Compass
The rain did not fall; it hung. It suspended itself in the heavy air of the library, a fine mist that smelled of wet stone and old paper. Elias sat in the corner, his back pressed against the cold brick. He held the book in his lap. It was a thick volume, bound in leather that had turned black with age. His hands trembled. Not from cold. From the weight of it. He was a scholar of things that...
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