The Golden Compass
The dream was always the same, a loop of gold and silence. Eamon woke with the taste of iron in his mouth, the sheets damp with a sweat that smelled of rotting leaves. He was forty years old, a man whose knees clicked like dry twigs when he stood, his lungs a pair of bellows that wheezed in the thin mountain air. The sickness had settled into his bones over the last winter, a wasting thing that...
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