The Golden Compass

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Chapter One "Entry 404: Grain, coarse, 120 measures. Status: Unpaid. Debtor: Rashid Barakat, son of Yusuf." The ink on the ledger page was still wet, a dark smear that bled into the parchment like a bruise. I held the quill, my hand trembling so violently that the nib scratched a ragged line across the margin, a scar in the record of my own debt. Outside the window of the tithe barn, the sky...

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