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Beldre glanced back at hi hard "Why have you come? To taunt me?"

"To tell you that I understand," Spook said

"How can you say that?" she said "You don't understand me--you don't know me"

"I think I do," Spook said "I saw you1r eyes today, when you watched those people being uilty Guilty for your brother's murders You sorrow because you feel you should be able to stop him" He took a step forward "You can't, Beldre He's been corrupted by his power He er Do you realize what he's doing? Your brother is et Allomancers He captures them, then threatens to kill their faood man?"

"You are a sih she wouldn't meet his eyes

"I know," Spook said "What are a few deaths when it codo children, Beldre And he's doing it si Allomancers"

Beldre was silent for a moment "Go," she finally said

"I want you to co to overthrow your brother," Spook said "I am a member of the Survivor's own crew We took down the Lord Ruler--Quellion will hardly provide us with a challenge You don't have to be here when he falls"

Beldre snorted quietly in derision

"It's not just about your safety," Spook said "If you join with us, it will be a strong blow to your brother Perhaps it will convince hi There could be a oing to start screa in three heartbeats," Beldre said

"I don't fear your guards," Spook said

"I don't doubt that," Beldre said "But if they coain"

Spook wavered He stayed where he was, however, calling her bluff

And so she started screa

"Go kill him!" Kelsier said over her screauards you killed--they were just following orders Quellion, he's the true round his teeth in frustration, then finally ran, fleeing fro Quellion alive

For the s, clasps, ear loops, bracelets, and other bits of end Of course, most of the old or atium

Yet, to a Feruchemist, the metals orth far more than their economic value They were batteries, stores that could be filled, then drawn upon One th Filling it would drain the Ferucheh that sirew difficult--but the price hile For, when necessary, he could draw that strength forth

Many of these metalminds, spread out on the table in front of Sazed, were e the horrific battle that had ended with the fall--then rescue--of Luthadel over a year before That battle had left his, lined up on the side of the table, had been used to nearly kill hi his skin That, however, had allowed Sazed to draw forth their power and heal himself

At the very center of the collection were the most important metalminds of all Four bracers-- and polished, est of his metalminds, for they held the es, thoughts, or sounds that were fresh in his mind, then store thee, as memories could while held in theman, an older Feruchemist had read out the entire contents of his coppere in his own coppere The Lord Ruler had worked hard to sathered them--stories of how the world had been before the ash came and the sun had turned red The Keepers had athered the wisdom of those ere lost

And they had ions that had been forbidden by the Lord Ruler These he had worked the ently to destroy, and so the Keepers had worked with equal diligence to rescue them--to secure theht again Above all, the Keepers had searched for one thing: knowledge of their own religion, the beliefs of the Terris people Those had been forgotten during the destructive chaos following the Lord Ruler's ascension However, despite centuries of work, the Keepers had never recovered this e of all

I wonder ould have happened if we had found it, Sazed thought, picking up a steeliven up on his ith the religions in his portfolio for the ed to study

There were fifty religions left in his portfolio Why was he deluding hi to find any more truth in them than he had in the previous two hundred and fifty? None of the religions had ed to survive the years Shouldn't he just let thereat fallacy in the work of the Keepers They'd struggled to remember the beliefs of men, but those beliefs had already proven they lacked the resilience to survive Why bring the a sickly aniain