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Clubs grunted "So that's e never used to see you omen"

Breeze nodded "I can't help it anymore I always touch the emotions of everyone around me And so, when a woman comes to love me" He liked to think he wasn't invasive Yet, how could he trust anyone who said they loved him? Was it he, or his Allomancy, that they responded to?

Clubs filled his cup "You're a lot sillier than you act"

Breeze smiled Clubs was one of the few people as completely immune to his touch Emotional Allomancy wouldn't work on hi with his eh non-Allomantic means had proven to be a fruitless waste of ti is, you almost didn't join the crew because of me"

"Damn Soothers," Clubs muttered

"But you're immune to us"

"To your Allomancy, maybe," Clubs said "But that isn't the only way you people do things A man always has to watch himself around Soothers"

"Then why letfor wine?"

Clubs was silent for ato respond Finally, Clubs muttered, "You're not as bad as ulp of wine "That is as honest a compliment as I think I've ever received"

"Don't let it ruin you," Clubs said

"Oh, I think I' off his cup "This crewKell's planhas already done a thorough job of that"

Clubs nodded in agreement

"What happened to us, Clubs?" Breeze asked "I joined Kell for the challenge I never did knohy you joined"

"Money"

Breeze nodded "His plan fell apart, his arot destroyed, and we stayed Then he died, and we still stayed This blasted kingdom of Elend's is doomed, you know"

"We won't last another month," Clubs said It wasn't idle pessih to tell when they were serious

"And yet, here we are," Breeze said "I spent all dayskaa feel better about the fact that their fa soldiers that--with or without your help--will barely last a few heartbeats against a deter who doesn't seem to have a shade of a clue just how bad his predicament is Why?"

Clubs shook his head "Kelsier Gave us a city,it"

"But we aren't that kind of people," Breeze said "We're thieves and scaotten so bad that I Soothe scullery ht as well start dressing in pink and carrying around flowers I could probably s"

Clubs snorted Then he raised his cup "To the Survivor," he said "May he be da us better than we knew ourselves"

Breeze raised his own cup "Dareed quietly

The two fell silent Talking to Clubs tended to turn intowell, not talking However, Breeze felt a si onderful; it made him who he was But it was also work Even birds couldn't fly all the time

"There you are"

Breeze snapped his eyes open Allrianne stood at the entrance to the rooht blue; where had she gotten so many dresses? Her makeup was, of course, i blond hair--common in the West but almost unheard of in the Central Doure

Desire iht She's half your age You're a dirty old man Dirty! "Allrianne," he said unco?"

She rolled her eyes, shooing his legs out of the way so she could sit on the bench beside hihteen, not ten"

Youto focus on soer, shouldn't let the girl get near hi as she slid up to hihed, putting his arm around her shoulders Clubs just shook his head, the hint of a smile on his lips

"Well," Vin said quietly, "that answers one question"

"Mistress?" OreSeur said, sitting across the table from her in the dark room With her Allo on in the next boothlike room over

"Allrianne is an Allomancer," Vin said

"Really?"

Vin nodded "She's been Rioting Breeze's e him more attracted to her"

"One would think that he'd notice," OreSeur said

"You'd think," Vin said She probably shouldn't feel as ah the idea of that puff flying through the mists seemed ridiculous