The Golden Compass
The ink is still wet, Colonel, and it smells of iron, of the damp earth we dug for the foundations in 1892, and it smells of the rot that has finally set into your father’s lungs. You are sitting in the wing chair by the dead fire, your hands folded in your lap, watching the needle of the brass compass on the mahogany table tremble, a fine, high-pitched vibration that you feel in your teeth...
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