The Golden Compass
The dream was always the same, a recurring liturgy of gold and bone. Elias Thorne woke with the taste of iron on his tongue, the air of the small, damp cell thick with the scent of mildew and old sweat. He flexed his left hand, the one that had been severed at the wrist in the dream, and felt the phantom weight of the golden needle hanging in the void before his eyes. It was 1893, and the year...
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