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Spook nodded

"That's ridiculous," Elend said "You couldn't have known that Jastes would follow us"

"I didn't," Spook said, a lu before the wind, and fluttering in a hundred different flakes to the ground "But ured that Straff would withdraw his army and let the koloss attack the city That's why Sazed decided to send us away"

Vin felt a sudden chill

I've found the location of the Well of Ascension, Sazed had said To the north In the Terris Mountains

"Clubs told you this?" Elend was saying

Spook nodded

"And you didn't tell

Oh, no

Spook paused, then shook his head "You would have wanted to go back! I didn't want to die, El! I' at Elend's sword, shying away

Elend paused, as if realizing he'd been stepping toward the boy "I' to hurt you, Spook," he said "I'm just asharound, sitting with his back to an aspen

The thu softer

"Elend," Vin whispered

He turned

"Sazed lied The Well isn't to the north"

"What?"

"It's at Luthadel"

"Vin, that's ridiculous We'd have found it"

"We didn't," she said fir, she could feel the thu her

South

"The Well can't be to the south," Elend said "The legends all place it north, in the Terris Mountains"

Vin shook her head, confused "It's there," she said "I know it is I don't kno, but it is there"

Elend looked at her, then nodded, trusting her instincts

Oh, Sazed, she thought You probably had good intentions, but you may have doomed us all If the city fell to the koloss

"How fast can we get back?" Elend asked

"That depends," she said

"Go back?" Spook asked, looking up "El, they're all dead They told dwen, so you wouldn't kill yourselves cli But, when Clubs talked to oodbye I could see it in his eyes He knew he'd never see ain"

Elend paused, and Vin could see a moment of uncertainty in his eyes A flash of pain, of terror She knew those emotions, because they hit her at the same tirabbed her arht be survivorsrefugees They'll need your help"

She nodded, the fir her strength

"Spook and I will follow," he said "It should only take us a couple of days' hard riding But an Allo distances"

"I don't want to leave you," she whispered

"I know"

It was still hard How could she run off and leave him, when she'd only just rediscovered hiently now that she was sure of its location And if some of her friends did survive the attack

Vin gritted her teeth, then opened up her pouch and pulled out the last of her pewter dust She drank it doith a oing down It's not

"They're all dead" Spook ain

Vin turned The pulses thu

"Elend," she said "Please do soht, when the ht, if you can, and keep your wits about you Watch for the mist spirit--I think it may mean you harm"