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"I enjoy it"

"That's wonderful, my dear man," Breeze said "Why be asha puppies or so like that True, I think you're a bit crazy, but if you want to enjoy so so particularly esoteric, then you should feel free It leaves hts--such as getting drunk on Straff Venture's finest wines"

Sazed s hiainst the eood Better than he had in soh, still

"It is not so si down his pen "I feel happy being able to sie That is why I feel guilty"

"Not everybody is meant to be a leader, Sazed"

"No," Sazed said, "but Lord Elend did putour overthrow of the Citizen, not letting Lord Spook do it"

"My dear ? Being in charge isn't about doing anything--it's aboutcertain that other people do what they're supposed to! Delegation, my friend Without it, ould have to bake our own bread and dig our own latrines!" Then, Breeze leaned in "And, trustEver Particularly after I've cleaned a latrine"

Sazed shook his head "This isn't what Tindould have wanted of me She respected leaders and politicians"

"Correct me if you must," Breeze said, "but didn't she fall in love with you, not so or prince?"

"Well, love is perhaps--"

"Co about as surely as any teenage boy with a new fancy And, while she was a bit more reserved, she did love you One didn't have to be a Soother to see thatdown

"Is this what she'd want of you, Sazed?" Breeze said "To deny who you are? To become yet another stuffy politician?"

"I do not know, Lord Breeze," Sazed said softly "II don't have her any involved in what she loved"

"Sazed," Breeze said frankly, "how is it you can be so wise in so many areas, yet be so completely stupid about this?"

"I"

"A man is what he has passion about," Breeze said "I've found that if you give up what you want most for what you think you should want more, you'll just end up miserable"

"And if what I want isn't what society needs?" Sazed said "Sometimes, we just have to do e don't enjoy That is a sied "I don't worry about that I just do what I's that I don't want to It all fits together, in the end"

Sazed shook his head It wasn't that simple, and his depression lately hadn't only been tied to Tindwyl and her death He had put off his study of the religions, but he knew that he would be driven to return to them The ith the canals was a welcome distraction, but even so, Sazed could feel his earlier conclusions and work loo

He didn't want to discover that the last religions in the group held no answers That was part of why it was so relaxing for hi didn't threaten his worldvieever, he could not distract himself forever He would find the answers, or the lack of answers, eventually His portfolio sat beneath the desk, resting against the sack of metalminds

For noever, he allowed hiions abated for theHe nodded his head in the direction of the lake Spook, just barely visible, stood at the edge, speaking with Goradel and some of the soldiers

"And what of hih that even Spook wouldn't be able to hear "As I said, Ee of this matter What if I let Spook take control, and then he fails? I worry that the young h for this task"

Breeze shrugged "He see Vin hen she killed the Lord Ruler"

"Yes," Sazed whispered, "but this situation is different Spook sees from us Why is he so deterood for the boy to show a little deter back in his chair "That lad has been far too passive for most of his life"

"Do you not worry about his plan? This could easily collapse around us"

"Sazed," Breeze said "Do you re a feeeks back? Spook asked me e couldn't just topple Quellion like we did the Lord Ruler"

"I remember," Sazed said "You told him the reason we couldn't was because we didn't have Kelsier anymore"

Breeze nodded "Well," he said softly, pointing his cane toward Spook, "my opinion has been revised We don't have Kelsier, but it's lookingsi the lad has Kelsier's force of personality Hispresence However, you've heard the reputation the boy is gaining a the people Kelsier succeeded not because of who he was, but because of who people thought he was That's so to think I rong"

Sazed wasn't as easily convinced Yet, he kept his reservations to himself as he turned back to his research Spookover at him, for a few minutes later he ainst the lantern-light, soft though it was, and pulled up a chair The fine furniture looked odd to Sazed, contrasted against the rows of dusty, utilitarian shelves

Spook looked fatigued How long has it been since he slept? Sazed thought He's still up whenever I bed down, and awake before I rise