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It felt like a good lanced at her She didn't like her place in the Church of the Survivor, and having Elend join it y He tried to catch her eye and s out into the audience

Elend frowned Vin stood up

A man from the audience suddenly shoved aside two soldiers in the front row, then leaped supernaturally far to land up on the dais The ht in shock Fortunately, iven hied, Elend tucked and rolled He hit the ground, scra down on hi cane raised

A flurry of white lace and skirts fluttered through the air over Elend Vin sla hirunted Vin landed with a thump directly in front of Elend The Asse and shouts

Vin kicked the lectern out of the way "Stay behind ht hand

Elend nodded hesitantly, unbuckling the sword at his waist as he cliroups of arh the roouards there Another group was cliroup see in the crowd Cett's soldiers

The Thug had regained his feet He didn't look like he had suffered ht But who sent theroup of five friends Chaos filled the roo to surround thee kept anyone froed around the stage's side exit The attackers, however, didn't seem concerned with them

Only with Elend

Vin re for thedespite the frilly dress Elend thought he actually heard her growl quietly

Theat the lead Thug with a dagger His reach was too great, however, and he easily fended her off with a swipe of his staff There were sixthe other three to likely be Coinshots or Lurchers A strong co this fight quickly with coins

They didn't understand that she would never use coins in this situation Not with Elend standing so close and with so many people in the room Coins couldn't be deflected safely If she shot a handful at her enemies, random people would die

She had to kill theseher and Elend Theyand one Coinshot in each teaet past her to Elend

Vin reached behind herself with iron, Pulling Elend's sword froht it by the hilt, throwing it at one of the teams The Coinshot Pushed it back at her, and she in turn Pushed it to the side, spinning it toward a second pair of Alloain Vin Pulled fro Elend's h the air by its clasp Sheath passed sword in the air This time, the ene the audience

Men shouted in desperation as they traritted her teeth She needed a better weapon

She flung a stone dagger at one assassin pair, then ju's weapon The Coinshot didn't have any metal on him that she could sense; he was just there to keep her fro with coins They probably assumed that Vin would be easy to defeat, as she was deprived of the ability to shoot coins

The Thug brought his staff back around, trying to catch her with the end She caught the weapon, yanking it forward and juainst the Asse in the chest, and she kicked hard with flared pewter As he grunted, Vin Pulled herself back toward the nails in the bleachers as hard as she could

The Thug ed to stay on his feet He see away fro his staff in her hands

She landed and spun toward Elend He'd found hiood sense to back hiht, souards The room was too full, the exits too small and cramped, for them all to escape

The Assemblymen made no moves to help Elend

One of the assassins cried out, pointing as Vin Pushed against the bleachers and shot toward thes raised their weapons as Vin turned in the air, lightly Pulling against a door's hinges to spin herself Her gown fluttered as she landed

I really have to thank that dressht as she raised the staff She briefly considered ripping the dress free anyway, but the Thugs were upon her too quickly She blocked both blows at once, then threw herself between thefaster than even they