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"Next," Felt said, "I tried the river"

"We thought of that," Elend said "The grates covering the water are all secure"

Felt smiled "That they are I sent some men down under the water to search about, and we found several locks down below, keeping the river grates in place"

"What?"

"Sorates free, my lord," Felt said, "then locked them back into place so it wouldn't look suspicious That way, they could swim in and out at their leisure"

Elend raised an eyebrow

"You want us to replace the grates?" Felt asked

"No," Elend said "No, just replace those locks with new ones, then post et into the city, I want them to find the with a happy smile on his face His talents as a spy hadn't been put tothe tasks Elend was giving hi Felt to work on locating the kandra spy--assu, of course, that Felt himself wasn't the spy

"My lord," Deht be able to offer a second opinion on how the poisonings are occurring"

Elend turned "Oh?"

De for a er, perhaps eighteen, and had the dirty face and clothing of a skaa worker

"This is Larn," Deation"

The young man bowed to Elend, posture nervous

"You may speak, Larn," Demoux said "Tell Lord Venture what you saw"

"Well, o tell this to the king The new king, I ht," Elend said "Continue"

"Well, thedidn't have tiht believe me"

"About what?" Elend asked

"Inquisitor, my lord," the man said quietly "I saw one in the city"

Elend felt a chill "You're sure?"

The young man nodded "I've lived in Luthadel all my life, nize one of those h the eyes, tall and robed, slinking about at night Near the center squares of the city I promise you"

Elend shared a look with Demoux

"He's not the only one, regation clai around Kredik Shaw I dismissed the first few, but Larn, he's trustworthy If he said he saw soood as a Tineye, that one"

Elend nodded slowly, and ordered a patrol frouard to keep watch in the area indicated After that, he turned his attention back to the wood-gathering effort He gave the orders, organizing the ather recruits Without fuel, es had shut down, and the workers were idle They could use soy in the an to split up Elend knew that determination, that fir so for fate--or kings--to act

Elend turned back to thea few notations From the corner of his eye, he saw Ham saunter in "So this is where they all went!" Harounds are e

"You're back to the uniforlanced down at his white outfit Designed to stand out, to set him apart from a city stained by ash "Yes"

"Too bad," Hah "Nobody should have to wear a uniform"

Elend raised an eyebrow In the face of undeniable winter, Ha a shirt beneath his vest He wore no cloak or coat, however

Elend turned back to the ht Anyway, that vest of yours is as much a uniform as this is"

"No it's not"

"Oh?" Elend asked "Nothing screaoes about in the winter without a coat, Hae how people react to you, to let them knoho you are and what you represent--which is essentially what a unifor way of looking at it"

"What?" Elend said "You never argued about so like this with Breeze?"

Haroups of ive orders

He's changed, Elend thought Running this city, dealing with all of this, it's even changed hi was more solemn, now--more focused Of course, he had even more stake in the city's safety than the rest of the crew It was so was a family man Ham tended to not talk much about Mardra or his two children Elend suspected it was habit; Ha apart from his family in order to keep theht, watching the soldiers leave to do their work So firewood to be a mundane task, of little relevance in a city threatened by three ar skaa people would receive the fuel with as much appreciation as they would salvation from the armies