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He let Yo table Elend shook his head--that was oneout a glass knife, slashing Elend started, du1cking backward, but the knife hit, slicing a gash in his forearm The cut blazed with pain, enhanced by Elend's tin, and Elend cursed, stuain, and Elend should have been able to dodge He had pewter, and Yo with the clumsiness of an unenhancedto take hirunted, blood hot on his skin, and he looked into Yo Elend's counterstrike It was al hies Yo confused

He's burning atiuht with shock That means he is Mistborn!

Part of Elend wanted to stay and fight, but the cut in his side was bad--bad enough that he knew he needed to get it taken care of soon Cursing his own stupidity, he Pushed hi blood on the terrified nobility clustered below He should have listened to Vin--he was going to get a serious lecture when he got back to camp

He landed, and noted that Yo stood behind his table, holding a knife red with Elend's blood, watching with anger

Elend turned, throwing up a handful of coins and Pushing theoers--careful not to hit any of theround Once the coins landed, Elend Pushed off of theh the room and toward the exit Vin had indicated Soon, he entered an outdoor patio cloaked withfrustrated, though he didn't knohy He had done his part--he'd kept Yoood half hour True, he'd gotten himself wounded, but he had discovered that Yo

He dropped a coin and shot himself into the air

Three hours later, Elend sat in the coot his side and arm patched Vin didn't arrive

He told the others about what had happened Vin didn't arrive

Ha to eat Elend paced for an hour after that, and still Vin did not return

"I'

Hauess that only pewter is keeping you on your feet"

It was true Elend could feel the edges of fatigue beneath his veil of pewter "I can handle it"

"You'll kill yourself that way," Ham said

"I don't care I--" Elend cut off as his tin-enhanced ears heard so the tent He pulled back the flaps before thehie fro it open

Pretender Venture, the note said, I have her, as you have probably guessed There's one thing I've always noted about Mistborn To aconversation I'

King Yomen

Vin sat quietly in the dark cavern Her back rested against the stone block that was the door to her prison Beside her, on the rock floor, sat the dwindling lantern she'd brought into the massive roo to force her way out However, she'd soon realized that the broken stones she'd seen on the outside--the work project she'd assumed had been used to open the door--had actually had a different purpose Yomen had apparently removed the metal plates inside the door, the ones that an Allomancer could Push or Pull on to open it That left the door as simply a stone block With duralumin-enhanced pewter, she should have been able to push even that open Unfortunately, she found it difficult to get leverage on the floor, which sloped doay fro to the hinges--or perhaps even piled up et the door to budge

She ground her teeth in frustration, sitting with her back to the stone door Yomen had set an intentional trap for her Had she and Elend been that predictable? Regardless, it was a brilliant ht them So, instead, he'd simply captured Vin It had the saht into the trap

She'd searched the entire roo Even worse, she'd located no hidden stock of atium It was hard to tell with all the cans of food and other sources of

"Of course it won't be in here," she muttered to herself "Yomen wouldn't have had ti to trap me, he certainly would have removed the atium I'm such an idiot!"

She leaned back, annoyed, frustrated, exhausted

I hope Elend did what I said, Vin thought If he had gotten captured too

Vin knocked her head back against the obstinate stones, frustrated

So sounded in the darkness

Vin froze, then quickly scrambled up into a crouch She checked her metal reserves--she had plenty, for the ain A soft footfall Vin shivered, realizing that she had only cursorily checked the cha for atiu inside the entire time?

She burned bronze, and felt him An Allomancer Mistborn The one she had felt before; the ht Yoht us--but he knew he had to separate us first! She s It wasn't a perfect situation, but it was better than thinking about the ie until they released her