The Golden Compass

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Elias. The wind tore the name from the throat of the gable, a sound like dry leaves skittering over gravel, and I gripped the rusted iron key until the metal bit into my palm. The rain in the courtyard of Blackwood Manor was not merely wet; it was a cold, mineral slap that soaked through my threadbare coat and settled into the bones of the man who stood there, forty-two years old and bankrupt...

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