The Golden Compass
The fog had a taste, sharp and metallic, like licking a rusted nail, and it clung to the wool of Elias Thorne’s tunic until the fabric felt heavy with damp. He stood in the mouth of Shaft Four, the pickaxe resting against his shoulder, the wood grain worn smooth by three years of his sweat. The air here did not smell of earth, but of old iron and something sweeter, a cloying scent that reminded...
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