The Golden Compass
You are scrubbing the black mold from the crust of the bread loaf with a brass knife, the metal biting into the porous crumb, when the smell hits you: a sharp, sulfurous tang that is not quite rot but something older, something that smells like the earth opening its mouth to swallow the light. It is the winter of 1348, and you, Elias, a physician of thirty-two years who has served the Crown and...
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