The Golden Compass

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The needle slipped under Clara’s thumb, a sharp sting that bled a single drop onto the white muslin. She did not wipe it away. She was thirty years old, and her hands were mapped with the scars of ten years in the loom room, but today her fingers felt foreign, clumsy, as if they belonged to a woman who had forgotten the rhythm of the shuttle. The mill air was thick with the smell of raw cotton...

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