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Vin focused harder She could feel a pattern washing over her, a double duht The pulses ashing against so them in

Elend Breeze was focused on Elend Not surprising, considering the current discussion Breeze was always Pushing on the people he interacted with

Satisfied, Vin sat back But then she paused Marsh iht I wonder

She squeezed her eyes shut--ignoring the fact that any of the others who saw her would think her actions strange--and focused again on the Allo so hard she felt she'd give herself a headache There was avibration to the pulses But what that could mean, she wasn't certain

Focus! she told herself However, the pulses stubbornly refused to yield any further inforht I'll cheat She turned off her tin--she almost always had it on a little bit--then reached inside and burned the fourteenth metal Duralumin

The Allomantic pulses became so loudso powerfulshe swore she could feel their vibrations shaking her apart They pounded like beats fro from them

Anxiety, nervousness, worry, insecurity, anxiety, nervousness, worry--

It was gone, her bronze expended in one massive flare of power Vin opened her eyes; no one in the roo at her except OreSeur

She felt drained The headache she'd predicted before now ca inside her head like the tiny brother of the drum she'd now banished However, she held to the infors--and her first fear was that Breeze wasthese emotions appear Anxiety, nervousness, worry However, she immediately realized that Breeze was a Soother If he focused on e The ones he was using his powers to Soothe away

She looked fro Elend more confident! If Elend stood a little taller, it was because Breeze was quietly helping, Soothing away anxiety and worry And Breeze did this even as he argued andco her headache, feeling a newfound sense of admiration She'd alondered just a little at Breeze's placement in the crew The other men were all, to an extent, idealists Even Clubs, beneath his crotchety exterior, had always struck her as a solidly good man

Breeze was different Manipulative, a little selfish--he seee, not because he really wanted to help the skaa But, Kelsier had always clai the rity, not just their skill

Perhaps Breeze wasn't an exception after all Vin watched hi flippant And yet, on the inside, he was cooodto herself You just try your best to hide it

And he also wasn't the impostor She'd known that before, of course; Breeze hadn't been in the city when the kandra hada second confirmation lifted a tiny bit of her burden

Now if she could just eliminate some of the others

Elend bid the crew farewell after the o over security, Clubs back to training the soldiers, and Breeze to try and placate the Asse Elend's lack of attention

Vin trailed out of the study, shooting hi Tindwyl Suspicious of her still, eh? Elend thought with a just a little annoyed He would have let her stay, butwell, facing Tindas eh alone

Vin left the roo ht with satisfaction It was good to know that someone watched over her

Vin shut the door behind her, and Elend sighed, rubbing his shoulder Several weeks of training with the sword and cane were taking a lot out of him, and his body was bruised He tried to keep the pain fro Tindwyl see hiht She had to see hoell I did today

"Well?" he asked

"You are an e before her chair

"So you like to say," Elend said, walking forward to begin piling up a stack of books Tindwyl said that he needed to let servants keep his study clean, so he'd always resisted The clutter of books and papers felt right to hi the at him, however, it was difficult not to feel self-conscious about the mess He stacked another book on the pile