The Golden Compass
The brass compass in your hand is cold, its needle trembling with a erratic, drunken jitter that has no business in a still room. You hold it up to the lamplight, the glass face fogged with your breath, and watch the needle spin uselessly, a tiny iron tongue lolling out of a mouth that cannot speak. It is a cheap thing, bought for three shillings in a market stall in Galway, the kind of trinket...
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