The Golden Compass
The fog did not roll in; it arrived, heavy and wet, smelling of iron and old rain. It pressed against the windows of your small cottage in Oakhaven, a town that seemed to exist only when the mist allowed it. You are Elias, thirty-two, and you are dying of a want that has no name. Your mother lies in the room above, her breath shallow, her skin translucent as parchment. The wasting sickness is...
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