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Thehiuess I can see"

He wandered toward the pen farthest from the street Vin waited quietly, nose downturned at the s an appropriate one Eventually, he pulled a leashed dog up to Vin It was a wolfhound, if a small one--but it had sweet, docile eyes, and an obviously pleasant temperament

"The runt of the litter," the irl, I'd say Will probably make an excellent hunter, too These wolfhounds, they can smell better than any beast you seen"

Vin reached for her coin purse, but paused, looking down at the dog's panting face It al at her

"Oh, for the Lord Ruler's sake," she snapped, pushing past the dog andlady?" theuncertainly

Vin scanned the wolfhounds Near the back, she spotted a ray beast It was chained to a post, and it regarded her defiantly, a lol rising in its throat

Vin pointed "How much for that one in the back?"

"That?" the merchant asked "Good lady, that's a watchbeast It's rounds to attack anyone who enters! It's the one of the s you'll ever see!"

"Perfect," Vin said, pulling out some coins

"Good lady, I couldn't possibly sell you that beast Not possibly at all Why, I'll bet it weighs half again as much as you do"

Vin nodded, then pulled open the pen gate and strode in The ht up to the wolfhound He began to bark wildly at her, frothing

Sorry about this, Vin thought Then, burning pewter, she ducked in and slammed her fist into the animal's head

The animal froze, wobbled, then fell unconscious in the dirt The merchant stopped up short beside her, ave her one She used it to tie the wolfhound's feet together, and then--with a flare of pewter--she threw the anihtly at the pain in her side

This thing better not get drool ontheback toward the palace

Vin slaiven her soetting used to those She brushed off her hands

"What is that?" OreSeur asked He'd made it back to her rooms at the palace, but his current body was obviously unusable He'd needed to form muscles in places that ether, and while he'd healed his wounds, his body looked unnatural He still wore the bloodstained clothing fro at the wolfhound, "is your new body"

OreSeur paused "That? Mistress, that is a dog"

"Yes," Vin said

"I am a man"

"You're a kandra," Vin said "You can imitate flesh and muscle What about fur?"

The kandra did not look pleased "I cannot imitate it," he said, "but I can use the beast's own fur, like I use its bones However, surely there is--"

"I' to kill for you, kandra," Vin said "And even if I did kill someone, I wouldn't let youeat thein to talk if I keep replacingpeople foryou Well, I'll tell them that I finally did--nobody will think to realize that my new pet hound is actuallytoward the carcass "This will be very useful People pay less attention to hounds than they do to humans, and so you'll be able to listen in on conversations"

OreSeur's frown deepened "I will not do this thing easily You will need to compel me, by virtue of the Contract"

"Fine," Vin said "You're coular body only takes a few hours," OreSeur said "This could take longer Getting that "

"Get started, then," Vin said, turning toward the door On her way, however, she noticed a s over and taking off the lid A small note sat inside

Lady Vin,

Here is the next alloy you requested Aluminum is very difficult to acquire, but when a noble family recently left the city, I was able to buy soware

I do not know if this one ork, but I believe it worth a try I have mixed the aluminum with four percent copper, and found the outco I have read of this composition; it is called duralumin

Your servant, Terion

Vin s the rest of the box's contents: a small pouch of metal dust and a thin silvery bar, both presumably of this "duraluh not an Allo dusts for Mistborn and Mistings for most of his life