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It was the perfect way to show orthodoxy, yet rip on the city's most powerful resource But it wasn't this hypocrisy that ed the soldiers

It was the crying child

"Kill them!" Kelsier screa cane One of the soldiers finally noticed hi in shock

He fell first

Spook hadn't realized how hard he could swing The soldier's heleway, its metal crumpled The other soldiers cried out as Spook leaped over their fallen companion in the close confines They carried swords, but had trouble drawing theers

He pulled one free, wielding it with a swing powered by both pewter and fury, enhanced senses guiding his steps He cut through two soldiers, elbowing their dying bodies aside, pressing his advantage At the end of the passageway, four soldiers stood with a short skaa man

Fear shone in their eyes

Spook threw himself forward, and the shocked soldiers finally overca open the secret door and stu basement on the other side

The structure was already well on its way to burning down Spook could smell the smoke The rest of the conde to get through the doorway to follow their friend who had escaped Now they were forced backward as the soldiers shoved their way into the rooutted the slowest of the four soldiers, then left his dagger in the body, pulling out a second dueling cane The firood in his hand as he spun between shocked civilians, attacking the soldiers

"The soldiers can't be allowed to escape," Kelsier whispered "Otherwise, Quellion will know that the people were rescued You have to leave hiht flickered in a hallway beyond the well-furnished baseht Spook could feel the heat already Grian to creep in along the ceiling, spreading like a dark black ed, confused

Spook dashed forward, spinning as he swung both of his canes at one of the soldiers Theforward In an ordinary fight, Spook would have been skewered

Pewter and tin saved hi the wind of the onco where it would pass His heart thudded inside his chest as the sword sliced through the fabric at his side, butthe man's sword arm, then smacked another into his skull

The soldier fell, surprise visible in his dying eyes as Spook pushed past hi Spook brought up both of his canes, crossing the half of the cane into the air, but got caught in the second Spook snapped his weapon to the side, pushing the blade away, then spun inside the man's reach and took him doith an elbow to the stomach

Spook punched the man's head as he fell The sound of bone on bone cracked in the burning room The soldier slumped at Spook's feet

I can actually do this! Spook thought I a in baseht!

He spun, s with Spook's own knife held to the neck of a young girl The soldier stood with his back to the burning hallway, eyeing escape through the hidden passage Behind thethe rooet out!" Spook said, not turning fro you find at the end of this tunnel You'll find et you out of the city Go!"

Some had already fled, and those who re, obviously trying to decide his course Hean Allomancer--no ordinary man could have taken down so many soldiers so quickly Fortunately, it appeared that Quellion hadn't sent his own Allo He likely kept the him

Spook stood still He dropped the broken dueling cane, but held the other tightly to keep his hand froirl whimpered quietly

What would Kelsier have done?

Behind hie "You!" Spook said without turning "Bar that door from the outside Quickly!"

"But--"

"Do it!" Spook yelled

"No!" the soldier said, pressing the knife against the girl's neck "I'll kill her!"

"Do and you die," Spook said "You know that Look atpast me You're--"

The door thunked closed

The soldier cried out, dropping the girl, rushing toward the door, obviously trying to get to it before the bar fell on the other side "That's the only way out! You'll get us--"

Spook broke thecane The soldier screaround Flames burned on three of the walls, now The heat was already intense

The bar clicked into place on the other side of the door Spook looked down at the soldier Still alive

"Leave hi"

Spook hesitated

"He would have let all of those people die," Kelsier said "Let him feel what he would have done to these--what he has already done several tiroaningover to the secret door He threw his weight against it