The Golden Compass

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March 12 The banquet hall smelled of roasted duck and stale perfume, a thick, cloying fog that settled in the back of my throat. I sat at the long table near the stage, my left hand buried deep in my coat pocket, gripping the brass compass my father had given me twenty years ago. It was a pathfinder’s tool, a thing of precision and intent, now useless in a world of satellites and digital grids....

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