The Golden Compass
The light in the cartographer’s room was failing, a bruised purple thing that clung to the corners of the ceiling, and you could hear the scratching of Elias’s quill on parchment, a sound like a mouse gnawing at the bones of the house. You are Elias, thirty-two, and your hands are stained with iron-gall ink, the black drying into ridges on your knuckles that look like old scars. The map is...
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