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"So, you said there's a legal way to get the throne back," Hao about it?"

"The Asse in the law says that the new king can't be the same as the old one And, if they can't come up with a majority decision by that deadline, the throne reverts to me for a mini his chin

"What did you expect?" Breeze said "It's the law"

"I didn'tthe Assembly to either choose Elend or not choose anyone They wouldn't have deposed him in the first place unless they had another person in mind for the throne"

"Not necessarily," Dockson said "Perhaps they si"

"Perhaps," Elend said "Gentle the Asseot theht of parlay However, we never realized that an easy way for the, then have hi his head "I have to ad the Asseue--and because of that, they can easily see the my place I'll bet one of the Assemblymen has convinced the others to put him on the throne instead"

"So, we just make him disappear," Ham said "I'm sure Vin could"

Elend frowned

"I', El," Ham said

"You know, Ha about your jokes is how often they lack any hu that because they usually involve you in the punch line"

Breeze rolled his eyes

"You know," OreSeuron her tin to let Vin hear his would be ot to invite those two"

Vin smiled "They're not that bad," she whispered

OreSeur raised an eyebrow

"Okay," Vin said "They do distract us a little bit"

"I could always eat one of thes up"

Vin paused

OreSeur, however, had a strange little size We can be a bit grim"

Vin sood anyway Hay, and you don't want to know the kinds of things that Breeze spends his ti"

"I'm not sure," OreSeur said "One is, after all, named 'Ham' As for the other" He nodded to the cup of wine in Breeze's hand "He does see hih his stacks of books, pulling out several relevant volu the book of Luthadel law that he himself had written

"Your Majesty," Tindwyl said, e the terroup of kolosstheir way into the Central Dominance Do you honestly think that you have tial battle now?"

Elend set down the books and pulled his chair to the table "Tindwyl," he said "I have two ar to pressure the the leaders of this city frodom over to one of the invaders Do you honestly think that it's a coincidence that I get deposed now?"

Several members of the crew perked up at this, and Vin cocked her head

"You think one of the invadershis chin

"What would you do, if you were the a book "You can't attack the city, because it will cost you too e has already lasted weeks, your troops are getting cold, and the es, threatening your food supply Add on top of that, you know that a large force of koloss arethis wayand, well, it ood, they'll know that the Asseave the city ahen that army first arrived Assassins have failed to kill me, but if there were another way to remove me"

"Yes," Breeze said "This does sound like soainst you, put a syates"

Elend nodded "And , as if he felt he had soet the city I can't be certain if either monarch is behind this nore the possibility This isn't a distraction--this is verysince those armies arrived If I can put myself back on the throne, then Straff and Cett will know that I'm the only one they can ith--and that will, hopefully, make them more likely to side with me in desperation, particularly as those koloss draw near"

With that, Elend began riffling through a stack of books His depression see in face of this new acadeht be a few other clauses of relevance in the law," he halfSpook, did you invite Sazed to this et hi fro away from her study of Elend and his books "It's an issue of the Keepers"

"Needs to refill one of his metalminds?" Ha "He explained that to you, then?"

Haardless, he could not help with this probleoverne of the past However, traveling Keepers such as Sazed do not take sides in political matters"