The Golden Compass
The mail coach rattled across the wooden bridge, its wheels grinding against the wet timber with a sound like teeth on bone, while the Fens stretched out in a grey, waterlogged expanse where the sky pressed low against the flat earth. In the shadow of the bridge, Mildred Sturgis adjusted the strap of her satchel, the leather worn thin by twenty years of carrying other people’s secrets, and...
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