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"No!" Kelsier said "Spook, do you want to go back to being norain? You'll lose your pewter, and go back to being weak, like you hen you let your uncle die!"

Spook wavered

No, Spook thought Soet him to use his Alloot about plans and preparation I brought destruction to this city

This is not right!

He pulled the glass dagger from his boot Kelsier screa the flesh of his chest He reached in with pewter-enhanced fin1gers and grabbed the steel shard that was embedded inside

Then, he ripped the bit ofout at the shock of pain Kelsier vanished immediately And so did Spook's ability to burn pewter

It hit hi his ti The sudden explosion of light, sound, smell, and sensation that pewter had let hi hiroaned, unable to think anymore He could simply let the blackness take hi

Blackness

Thousands will die in the flames

The mists tickled his cheeks In the cacophony, Spook had let his tin di blissfully numb It was better that way

You want to be like Kelsier? Really like Kelsier? Then fight when you are beaten!

"Lord Spook!" The voice was faint

Survive!

With a screaht a wave of sensations--thousands of the Sounds, shts

And lucidity

Spook forced hi Blood still strea toward the platfor as he arrived "Lord Breeze is trying to damp down riots, but we pushed this city too far, I think! The people will destroy it in their rage"

"The flames," Spook croaked "We have to put out the fires The city is too dry; it has too much wood It will burn, with everyone in it"

Sazed looked grave "There is no way We lanced to the side Beldre was kneeling beside her brother She'd bound his wound, and then lanced at Spook, looking dazed As if he'd just awoken from a dream

Spook stumbled to his feet "We won't abandon the city, Sazed"

"But--"

"No!" Spook said "I ran froain! We can stop the flames We just need water"

Sazed paused

"Water," Beldre said, standing

"The canals will fill soon," Spook said "We can organize fire brigades--use the flood to stop the flalanced down "There will be no flood, Spook The guards you leftI attacked them with coins"

Spook felt a chill "Dead?"

She shook her head, hair disheveled, her face scratched "I don't know," she said quietly "I didn't look"

"The waters have not come yet," Sazed said "Theyshould have been released by now"

"Then ill bring the dizzy "You!" he said, pointing at t1he Citizen "You would be king of this city? Well, lead this people, then Get control of them and prepare them to put out the fires"

"I can't," Quellion said "They'll kill ht-headed He steadied hi his head Beldre took a step toward hi Quellion's eyes The fires of the city were so bright that his flared tin made it difficult to see Yet, he dared not release thehio to theive a da to try to save this city If you don't, I'll kill you myself Do you understand?"

The Citizen froze, then nodded

"Sazed," Spook said, "take hi the floodwaters to the canals, one way or another Have Breeze and the others forades to douse the flames as soon as there is water"

Sazed nodded "It is a good plan But Goradel will lead the Citizen I a with you"

Spook nodded wearily Then, as Sazed uard captain--who had apparently established a defensive perie and forced hi toward the cache

Soon, he noticed someone catch up to him Then, after a few moments, that person passed hi that Sazed had decided to move on--the Terrisman had created the mechanism that would flood the city He would throw the lever Spook wasn't needed