The Golden Compass
Chapter One Kauko Koskinen, thirty-four years old and a clerk with ink permanently stained into the whorls of his fingerprints, woke with the taste of copper in his mouth and the certainty that he had forgotten to lock the front door of the tenement. The dream had been the same for the seventh time that winter: golden ink bleeding not from a pen, but from the skin of his forearm, spreading like...
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