The Golden Compass

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The rain in the borderlands did not fall so much as it hung, a grey curtain that smelled of wet iron and rotting hay. Elias Thorne stood at the edge of the magistrate’s courtyard, his boots sinking into the mud that had turned to a slick, sucking paste after three days of unceasing downpour. He was thirty-two years old, a sergeant in the King’s levy, and he carried in his left palm a small,...

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