The Golden Compass
The needle had been spinning for three hours, a frantic, stuttering motion that seemed to ignore the magnetic pull of the earth entirely. Elias Thorne sat in the chair by the cold stove, his back aching with a dull, persistent throb that had become as constant as his heartbeat, and he watched the brass instrument on the table tremble against the grain of the wood. He counted the seconds between...
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