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"What do you know of hi more than you," OreSeur ades of character When you practice i as I have, you learn to see to the hearts of men I do not like what I have seen of Zane He seems too pleased with himself He seems too deliberate in the way he has befriended you He s parted, hands before her with palht

But, OreSeur hadn't floith Zane, hadn't sparred in the h no fault of his own, OreSeur was like Elend Not an Allomancer Neither of them could understand what it was to soar on a Push of steel, to flare tin and experience the sudden shock of five heightened senses They couldn't know They couldn't understand

Vin leaned back Then, she regarded the wolfhound in the growing light There was soood a time as any "OreSeur, you can switch bodies, if you want"

The wolfhound raised an eyebrow

"We have those bones that we found in the palace," Vin said "You can use those, if you're tired of being a dog"

"I couldn't use theested their body--I wouldn't know the proper arrangeans to make the person look correct"

"Well, then," Vin said "We could get you a criht you liked these bones on me," OreSeur said

"I do," Vin said "But, I don't want you to stay in a body that makes you unhappy"

OreSeur snorted "My happiness is not an issue"

"It is to me," Vin said "We could--"

"Mistress," OreSeur interrupted

"Yes?"

"I shall keep these bones I've grown accustoe forht," she finally said

OreSeur nodded "Though," he continued, "speaking of bodies, Mistress, are we ever planning to return to the palace? Not all of us have the constitution of a Mistborn--some people need sleep and food on occasion"

He certainly coht However, she found the attitude to be a good sign; ith to tell her when he thought she was being stupid

Why do I even bother with Zane? she thought, rising and turning eyes northward The , and she could barelythe northern canal,for the right tiht I should be more focused on Elend His motions to dismiss the Assembly's decision, or to force a revote, had all failed And, stubbornly lawful as always, Elend continued to accept his failures He still thought he had a chance to persuade the Asse--or at least not vote anybody else to the position

So he worked on speeches and planned with Breeze and Dockson This left hi he needed was her distracting hi she couldn't fight or scare away

His world is of papers, books, laws, and philosophies, she thought He rides the words of his theories like I ride the mists I alorry that he can't understand mebut can I really even understand him?

OreSeur stood, stretched, and placed his forepaws on the wall's railing to raise himself and look north, like Vin

Vin shook her head "Sometimes, I wish Elend weren't sowell, noble The city doesn't need this confusion right now"

"He did the right thing, Mistress"

"You think so?"

"Of course," OreSeur said "He made a contract It is his duty to keep that contract, no matter what He must serve his master--in his case, that would be the city--even if thatvery distasteful"

"That's a very kandralike way of seeing things," Vin said

OreSeur looked up at her, raising a canine eyebrow, as if to ask Well, what did you expect? She smiled; she had to suppress a chuckle every ti face

"Coet back to the palace"

"Excellent," OreSeur said, dropping down to all fours "That meat I set out should be perfect by now"

"Unless the ain," Vin said with a sht you were going to warn them"

"What would I say?" Vin asked with a likes to eat it?"

"Why not?" OreSeur asked "When I iood ed meat sometimes, don't they?"