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"You may, perhaps, understand politics," Breeze said, "but this is sca Face it,about how to defend the rights of skaa and the like"

"Now, see, you're being unfair," Elend said "Honesty and good intentions are completely different Why, I can be just as dishonest as--" He paused "Why a this point? We admit what has to be done, and we know that I'm the one who has to do it Dox, would you draft a letter to est that I would be happy to visit hi at Vin Then, he continued "In fact, tell him that I want to discuss the future of Luthadel, and because I want to introduce hi like bringing a girl hoirl happens to be the erous Allomancer in the Central Doree to letting her come?" Dockson said

"If he doesn't, there's no deal," Elend said "Make sure he knows that Either way, I do think he'll agree Straff has a habit of underestiood reason However, I'll bet that sentiood as everyone says"

"Straff has his own Mistborn," Vin added "To protect hi o wrong"

Hanified retreat--getting slung over Vin's shoulder and carried to safety"

"Better than dying," Elend said, obviously trying to act good-natured, but flushing slightly at the same tiht HowMistborn while he is simply a normal person? A lesser man would never have fallen in love with me

But, doesn't he deserve a woman that he feels he can protect? A woman who's more likea wo warmth within its plushness However, it was Elend's study chair, where he read Didn't he also deserve a wo a chore? A woman hom he could talk about his brilliant political theories?

Why aht

We don't belong in their world, Zane had said We belong here, in thewith the else I wanted to mention, Your Majesty," Dockson said "You should et your ear--so passed in Luthadel"

"I don't really have tiht now," Elend said "The prime reason I set up the Assembly was so that they could deal with these kinds of issues Go ahead and send theize forto the city's defense I'll try andnext week"

Dockson nodded, scribbling a note to hi else to consider By ive up your hold on the Assembly"

"This isn't an official parlay," Elend said "Just an infor My resolution from before will still stand"

"In all honesty, Your Majesty," Dockson said, "I highly doubt that they will see it that way You kno angry they are to be left without recourse until you decide to hold the parlay"

"I know," Elend said "But the risk is hile We need to meet with Straff Once that is done, I can return with--hopefully--good news for the Asseue that the resolution hasn't been fulfilled For now, the oes forward"

More decisive indeed, Vin thought He's changing

She had to stop thinking about things like that Instead, she focused on so else The conversation turned to specific ways that Elend couldhim tips on how to sca the to decide if any of the even quieter than norhis slang? Was Ham, perhaps, too jovial? He also seemed to focus less on his little philosophical puzzles than he once had Was that because he was more serious now, or because the kandra didn't kno to iht toodiscrepancies in anyone Yet, at the same time, they all seemed like themselves People were just too complex to reduce to siood--very good He would have a lifeti others, and he had probably been planning his insertion for a long time

It came down to Alloe and her studies about the Deepness, however, she hadn't had a chance to test her friends As she thought about it, she admitted that the lack of time excuse was a weak one The truth was that she was probably distracting herself because the thought of one of the crew--one of her first group of friends--being a traitor was just too upsetting

She had to get over that If there really were a spy in the group, that would be the end of thes found out about the tricks Elend was planning

This in mind, she tentatively burned bronze Immediately, she sensed an Alloible Breeze He was so good at Allomancy that even Vin couldn't detect his touchhis power

He wasn't currently using it on her, however She closed her eyes, focusing Once, long ago, Marsh had tried to train her in the fine art of using bronze to read Alloe a task he'd begun

When an Alloave off an invisible, dru bronze could sense The rhythm of these pulses--how quickly the beats ca burned

It took practice, and was difficult, but Vin was getting better at reading the pulses She focused Breeze was burning brass--the internal,metal And