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People in the roo, but she couldn't hear theripped her throat, strangling her Only flared peas keeping her alive She flashed back to the day, o, when she'd been held by another Inquisitor Standing in the Lord Ruler's throne room

On that day, Marsh himself had saved her life It seeled by hian to swirl around her

Marsh started, though he continued to hold her

Vin drew upon the ain She didn't kno, or why, but it just happened She breathed the o when she'd killed the Lord Ruler She somehow pulled them into her and used thee of power

And, with that power, she Pushed on Marsh's emotions

The wall inside of him cracked, then burst For a h Marsh's eyes--indeed, she felt like she understood him His love of destruction, and his hatred of hili that hid behind aas the e burst of power dissipated, but it didn't matter, for Marsh fled out theand Pushed hi

I did it I drew upon the , did it happen now?

There was no ti She turned to the baffled Yo out to help"

Elend fought desperately, cutting down koloss after koloss It was difficult, dangerous work, even for him These koloss couldn't be controlled--no matter how he Pushed or Pulled on their e even one of the And, his men weren't prepared for battle--he'd forced the, its shooshing dangerously close to Elend's head He cursed, dropping a coin and Pushing hi ed to retreat back to the positioning of their original fortification, which meant that they had a sroup of his Coinshots--he only had ten--stood firing wave after wave of coins into the main bulk of the koloss, and archers threw similar volleys The main line of soldiers was supported by Lurchers from behind, ould Pull on koloss weapons and throw thes ran around the peri up weak spots and acting as reserves

Even with all of that, they were in serious trouble Elend's arainst so many koloss any more easily than Fadr1ex could have Elend landed in theheavily, covered in koloss blood Men yelled as they fought a short distance away, holding the camp perimeter with the help of Elend's Allomancers The bulk of the koloss army was still bunched around the northern section of camp, but Elend couldn't pull histhem to Yomen's archers

Elend tried to catch his breath as a servant rushed up with a cup of water for hi the battle tactics Elend tossed aside the eeneral, who sat at a small table It held a map of the area, but hadn't beenjust yards away, that it wasn't really necessary to keep an abstract battle s in the army," Cett said as he downed a cup of water hieon, who pulled out a bandage to begin working on Elend's armâ"hich, up until that

"Well," Cett noted, "at least we'll die in battle, rather than of starvation!"

Elend snorted, picking up his sword again The sky was nearly dark They didn't have ure landed on the table in front of Cett "Elend!" Vin said "Retreat to the city Yomen will let you in"

Elend started "Vin!" Then, he sot delayed by an Inquisitor and a dark god," she said "Now, hustle I'll go see if I can distract some of those koloss"

Inquisitors had little chance of resisting Ruin They had ic creations, and that put them completely under his domination

Yes, it would have taken athe spikes of an Inquisitor

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SAZED TRIED NOT TO THINK about how dark the ash was in the sky, or how terrible the land looked

I've been such a fool, he thought, riding in the saddle Of all the ti to believe in, this is it And I wasn't there to give it to the to the saddle, still somewhat amazed at the creature who ran beneath hio with TenSoon south, he had despaired atthe trip Ash fell like the snows of a blizzard, and it had piled terribly high in most places Sazed had known travel would be difficult, and he'd feared slowing TenSoon, who could obviously travel far more quickly as a wolfhound

TenSoon considered this concern, then had ordered a horse and a large hog to be brought to hiive hiel-like flesh around the horse to digest it as well Within an hour, he'd formed his body into a replica of the horseâ"ut one with enhancednonstop since then Fortunately, Sazed had soo, after the siege of Luthadel He used this to keep hi asleep It still amazed him that TenSoon could enhance a horse's body so well It h the thick ash, where a real horseâ"nd certainly a hu I've been a fool about These last few days, I could have been interrogating TenSoon about his powers How much more is there that I don't know?

Despite his sha of peace within hiions after he'd stopped believing in them, then he would have been a true hypocrite Tindwyl had believed in giving people hope, even if one had to tell theion: lies that made people feel better

Sazed couldn't have acted the same wayâ"t least, he couldn't have done so and remained the person he wanted to be However, he now had hope The Terris religion was the one that had taught about the Hero of Ages in the first place If any contained the truth, it would be this one Sazed needed to interrogate the First Generation of kandra and discover what they knew

Though, if I do find the truth, ill I do with it?

The trees they passed were stripped of leaves The landscape was covered in a good four feet of ash "How can you keep going like this?" Sazed asked as the kandra galloped over a hilltop, shoving aside ash and ignoring obstructions

"My people are created fro winded "The Lord Ruler turned the Feruchean to breed true as a species You add a Blessing to ainto a kandra One such as I, created centuries after the Ascension, was born as a "

"Blessing?" Sazed asked