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Instants later, Luthadel appeared, atoward Kredik Shaw and its spires, which see toward her The Inquisitors were still there--she could see the up Waiting There were only eight, not counting Marsh One lay impaled on a nearby spike from her last push; the blow had apparently torn the center spike out of his back

Five, Vin thought, landing a short distance frole Push could throw her up so far she passed out of the mists, then ould happen if she Pushed outward?

She waited quietly as the Inquisitors charged She could see desperation in theirto Vin, Ruin was apparently willing to risk every one of the creatures in the hopes that they would kill her before she was cosucked down a drain

When the Inquisitors had al metal away from her with all the force as she couldher body with a massive flare of pewter Stone cracked Inquisitors cried out

And Kredik Shaw exploded

Towers toppled from their foundations Doors ripped free from their frames Windows shattered Blocks burst, the entire structure torn to pieces as its round tre--even the rock and stone, which obviously contained residual traces of asped, stopping her Push She drew in breath, feeling the rain splatter against her The building that had been the Lord Ruler's palace was gone, flattened to rubble which spread out and away from her like an impact crater

An Inquisitor burst fro from where one of his spikes had ripped free Vin raised a hand, Pulling and steadying herself from behind The Inquisitor's head lurched, his other eye-spike pulling free He toppled forward, and Vin caught the spike, Pushing it toward another Inquisitor as rushing her He raised a hand to Push it back at her

And she drove it forward anyway, ignoring his Push with a quick Push backward to stabilize herself He was throay and slammed into the remnants of a wall The spike continued forward, Pushed like a fish darting through water, ignoring the current The spike sla his head back against the granite

Six and seven

Vin stalked across the rubble,a funnel cloud with her at its focus It was like a tornado, but with no air currents Just i, co to her silent command

She stepped over an Inquisitor corpse that had been crushed by the rubble; she kicked his head free to ht

Three rushed her at once She screa on a fallen spire Theitself--lurched into the air, spinning at her command She sla the atop their corpses

Nine Ten Eleven

The storh the mists continued to swirl The rain let up as Vin walked across the shattered building, eyes searching for Allo before her, and she picked up and tossed aside an enorroaned beneath; she reached for hi mist It didn't just swirl around her, it ca forth from the pores in her skin She breathed out, and mist puffed before her, then iain

She grabbed the Inquisitor, pulling hian to heal as he used his Ferucheer Yet, even the awesoainst Vin She pulled his eye-spikes free, tossed the in the rubble

Twelve

She found the last Inquisitor huddled in a pool of rainwater It was Marsh His body was broken, and he wasone of the spikes fro, but that one apparently wasn't enough to kill him He turned his pair of spikeheads to look up at her, expression stiff

Vin paused, breathing deeply, feeling rainwater trail down her arers She still burned within, and she looked up, staring into the vortex ofdown She was having trouble thinking for all the energy that coursed through her

She looked down again

This isn't Marsh, she thought Kelsier's brother is long dead This is so else Ruin

Thefaster--yet tighter--as the final wisps of mist spun down and were pulled into Vin's body

Then the ht shone above, and flecks of ash fell in the air The night landscape was eerie in its stillness, blackness, and clarity Even with tin--which let her see at night far better than a normal person could--the ht landscape without theasped, feeling the fire within her blaze hotter and hotter It was Allomancy as she'd never known it It felt as if she had never understood it The poas far greater thanawesomely more vast A power that men had used, yet never comprehended

She forced her eyes open There was one Inquisitor left She had drawn the a trap for someone far more powerful than herself And the mists had responded

It was time to finish what she had come to do

Marsh watched li, she reached for one of his eye-spikes

There was nothing he could do He'd used upin hisworked by way of speed He could either heal himself a small amount very quickly, or wait and heal himself slowly, yet completely Either way, he was dead as soon as Vin pulled those spikes free

Finally, he thought with relief as she grabbed the first spike Whatever I didit worked Soe, felt hishis mistake In the end, Marsh had iven up He'd done Mare proud

Vin pulled the spike free It hurt, of course--hurt far ht possible He screamed--both in pain and in joy--as Vin reached for the other eye-spike