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"I was out cold for the last part of the battle," Hahtered ot out, and found Sazed, butunconscious outside Keep Hasting When I woke up, Vin had already taken the city back I"
They paused Vin stood in front of them in the city street Quiet, dark In the mists, she almost looked like the spirit Elend had seen earlier
"Vin?" he asked in the eerie air
"Elend," she said, rushing forward, into his arone She shivered as she held hi bad"
"Oh?" he asked "What is that?"
"I made you emperor"
Elend smiled "I noticed, and I accept"
"After all you did to make certain the people had a choice?"
Elend shook his head "I' to think my opinions were simplistic Honorable, butincolad to find that "
Vin smiled She looked tired
"Vin?" he asked "Are you still pewter-dragging?"
"No," she said "This is sohtful, as if deciding so
"Come," she said
Sazed watched out the , a second tinht It was indeed Elend below Sazed shts on his soul re
And then he saw so on the floor in front of hi his own handwriting on it Its edges were jagged fro over to his table, opening the book to the page with Kwaan's narrative A piece wasThe same piece as before, the one that had been ripped free that tie occurrence with the pages all e, from his metalmind, after they'd found the torn sheets Now the same bit had been torn free, the last sentence Just to make certain, he put it up next to his book It fit perfectly Alendi must not reach the Well of Ascension, it read, for he must not be allowed to take the power for hi Sazed had in his
Why would Kwaan have worried about this? he thought, sitting down He says he knew Alendi better than anyone else In fact, he called Alendi an honorable man on several occasions
Why would Kwaan be so worried about Alendi taking the power for hih the mists Elend, Ham, and Spook trailed behind her, the crowd dispersed by Elend's order--though some soldiers did stay close to protect Elend
Vin continued on, feeling the pulsings, the thus, the power that shook her very soul Why couldn't the others feel it?
"Vin?" Elend asked "Where are we going?"
"Kredik Shaw," she said softly
"Butwhy?"
She just shook her head She knew the truth, now The Well was in the city With how strong the pulsings were growing, she ht have assumed that their direction would be harder to discern But that wasn't the way it was at all Now that they were loud and full, she found it easier
Elend glanced back at the others, and she could sense his concern Up ahead, Kredik Shaw looht Spires, like round in an off-balance pattern, reaching accusingly toward the stars above
"Vin," Elend said "The ely"
"I know," she said "They're guiding me"
"No, actually," Elend said "They kind of look like they're pulling away froht How could she explain? Together, they entered the remnants of the Lord Ruler's palace
The Well was here all along, Vin thought, ah the building Why hadn't she noticed it before?
The pulses were still too weak, then, she realized The Well wasn't full yet Now it is And it called to her
She followed the same path as before The path she'd folloith Kelsier, breaking into Kredik Shaw on a dooht when she had nearly died The path she'd followed on her own, the night she had coht stone corridors opened into the roolistened against the fine stonework and ray The stone shack stood in the center of the roooing to find your atiu
"What?" Elend said, his voice echoing in the cha"
"Not enough, apparently," Vin said, eyeing the s toward it
This is where I'd put it, she thought It makes sense The Lord Ruler would have wanted to keep the Well close so that when the power returned, he'd be able to take it
But I killed hi came from below They'd torn up sections of the floor, but had stopped when they'd hit solid rock There had to be a way down She walked over, searching through the building-within-a-building, but found nothing She left, passing her confused friends, frustrated
Then she tried burning herto sources of h Ham was clean Some of the stonework bore metal inlays, and lines pointed to those
Everything was as expected There was nothing