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TenSoon snorted He hadn't ever really liked Breeze--though perhaps that caainst all huardless, he wasn't inclined toward small talk "Where is Vin?" he asked

Breeze frowned "I thought you brought a uards," TenSoon said "I've actually coarding the mists and ash"

"Well, then, ie Anyway, let us retire; you can talk to Sazed He's far s"

"and, with Spook barely having survived the ordeal," said the Terrisht it best to let Lord Breeze take co--it seemed equipped to be a bureaucratic center--and had Breeze start listening to petitions He is better at dealing with people than I a care of the day-to-day concerns of the citizenry"

The Terrisman sat in his chair, a portfolio open on the desk before him, a pile of notes beside it Sazed looked different to TenSoon for some reason that he couldn't pin down The Keeper wore the same robes, and had the sa , however

That, however, was the least of TenSoon's proble on his own chair They were in one of the s--one that had once been an obligator's sleeping quarters Now, it simply held a desk and chairs, the walls and floor as austere as one s

Sazed nodded "She and the ee caverns there"

TenSoon slumped Fadrex was halfway across the e of Potency, it would take weeks for hi run ahead of hiht I ask what business you have with Lady Vin, kandra?" Sazed asked

TenSoon paused It felt very odd, in a way, to speak so openly with Breeze, and now Sazed These were men that TenSoon had watched forThey'd never known him, yet he felt as if he knew theerous The Terrisroup that TenSoon and his brethren had been trained to avoid Keepers were always prying for ruends, and tales The kandra had many secrets; if the Keepers were ever to discover the riches of kandra culture, it could be disastrous They'd want to study, ask questions, and record what they found

TenSoon opened his " However, he 1stopped Didn't he want someone to help with kandra culture? Soions, and who--perhaps--knew ends of the Hero of Ages? Of all the members of the crew other than Vin, TenSoon had held Sazed in the highest regard

"It has to do with the Hero of Ages," TenSoon said carefully "And the advent of the world's end"

"Ah," Sazed said, rising "Very well then I shall give you whatever provisions you need Will you be starting out i here to rest for a tiht Sazed hadn't even twitched at the ious matters It didn't see, as if TenSoon hadn't just hinted at one of the greatest religious secrets of their age

I'll never understand hu his head

The prison Preservation created for Ruin was not created out of Preservation's power, though it was of Preservation Rather, Preservation sacrificed his consciousness--one could say his mind--to fabricate that prison He left a shadow of hian to suffocate and isolate this sht it strange that Preservation had cut hi it in the world, to be gathered and used by ambit, I see nobility, cleverness, and desperation He knew that he could not defeat Ruin He had given too much of himself and, beyond that, he was the embodiment of stasis and stability He could not destroy, not even to protect It was against his nature Hence the prison

Mankind, however, had been created by both Ruin and Preservation--with a hint of Preservation's own soul to give them sentience and honor In order for the world to survive, Preservation knew he had to depend upon his creations To give theht when those creations repeatedly failed him

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THE BEST WAY TO FOOL SOMEONE, in Vin's estiive them what they wanted Or, at the very least, what they expected As long as they assumed that they were one step ahead, they wouldn't look back to see if there were any steps that they'd coned her prison well Any metal used in the construction of her cot or facilities was Allomantically useless Silver, while expensive, seemed the metal of choice--and there was very little even of that Just a few screws in the cot that Vin ernails

Her ruel--were served in wooden boooden spoons The guards were hazekillers: men who carried staves and wore no ht Allomancers Her room was a sies and bolts uards' behavior that they expected so from her Yomen had prepared theh the slit, she could see the tension in their bodies and the speed of their retreat It was like they were feeding a viper

So, the next time they came to take her to Yomen, she attacked

Sheshe'd pulled off her cot She dropped the first guard with a club to the arm, then a second hit on the back of his head Her blows felt ithout pewter, but it was the best she could uard in line, then slammed her shoulder into the stoh to get hirabbed