The Golden Compass

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The needle spins, and I wonder if it is broken, or if the north has simply left. I am twelve, and I sit in the attic of the house on Thirty-One of NineElm Crossing, a name that feels too English for the damp, black soil pressing against the foundation below. The air here smells of wet plaster and the rusted hinges of the door I cannot open. In my hands, the brass compass tarnishes, its face...

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