The Golden Compass
The ink was moving. Not drying, not bleeding in the usual way that cheap paper wicks moisture, but crawling. It slithered across the parchment in a slow, viscous tide, ignoring the cartography I had spent three years perfecting. I sat in the study, the air thick with the scent of cedar and old glue, and watched a line of sepia ink detach itself from the coastline of the harbor. It drifted...
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