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Well Of Ascension Chapters 2-3


Child Bahkbar

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Part 1

Chapter 2

Yeah, I've changed my mind about that whole bet thing. Y-You know I was joking, right?

It turns out those coins weren't thrown by the watcher after all, but by a crew of eight misting assassins. I guess I'll have to wait a little longer to finally see this "Watcher" for myself, right?

Wrong.

In the middle of Vin's battle with the assassins, the Watcher shows up, gazing down on them from some rooftop...this guy kinda gives me the creeps. I can just picture his creepy little smile as he watches Vin struggle for her life. She's outnumbered 8:1, but of course he doesn't step in to help. He does, however, through a well placed coin toss, reveal that one of the assassins is actually a full blown Mistborn. Thanks to the Watchers half assed intervention, and a little bit of atium, she discovers the cowardly Mistborn and wastes him.

This fight shows just how much Vin has improved. She slew seven mistings and a Mistborn, receiving only a few bruises and maybe some cracked ribs. Her pet kandra, however, wasn't quite so lucky. During the battle, Oreseur got pelted with coins.

Vin walks over to him to find him lying in a pool of his own blood, and, apparently, in a significant amount of pain. She doesn't seem all that concerned though. As a matter of fact, she doesn't even let him consume one of the men she just killed. Why the heck not?! They're already dead, so she might as well make some use of them while they're still fresh. She doesn't, though, instead leaving Oreseur to drag himself back home in his current, grievously injured, state.

Oh, and it turns out that the Atium bead Vin used against the assassin was her last. If they don't find the lord rulers atium stash soon, she's as good as dead.

End of chapter 2

I dunno if it was a good idea to kill all of the assassins. She probably should have tried to take at least one of them alive for questioning. I mean, we don't even know they were actually sent by Straff Venture, and even if they were, she may have been able to extract some valuable information from one of them.

I just realized that I forgot to write about the journal entry at the end of the last chapter. Well, it doesn't make much sense to me yet. Who is this Alendi? Is he the guy who wrote the journal in the last book?

Chapter 3

This chapter begins with an Elend PoV. He's working on a proposal to present to the parliament of his new government. Many of the nobles are actually considering surrendering and handing the city over to Lord Venture. Elend can't let them do that, he's going to present this proposal to them to ensure they don't do anything...rash.

After that rather short Elend PoV, we're back to Vin.

Vin senses someone burning metal somewhere in the city, so she follows the pulsing and finds a nigh invisible...thing standing right in front of her. It takes a step towards her and she, naturally, responds with violence. It is completely unaffected by her attack, and eventually just dissipates into the mists. What could this thing possibly be? Is it some sort of kandra? It was burning metal, though, and Kandra can't use allomancy, can they? Is this creature somehow related to the doom the Lord Ruler spoke of before he bit the dust? The deepness? I guess I'll find out.

Elend has pretty much finished up with his proposal, so he decides to read the letter he's received from his adoring father. The letter is too long for me to include the whole thing in this post, so I'll just paraphrase it for you.

"That'll do pig, that'll do.

King Straff Venture"

....

He seems to expect Elend to simply hand over the city now that daddy's come home. Elend pays the letter no heed, but We all know he never really listened to his father anyway.

Vin arrives through the window and tells Elend about the watcher's return, and the creature she saw in the mists. She does not, however, mention that the Watcher saved her life during her encounter with the assassins. I wonder why...

Anyhow, Elend doesn't believe she could have actually seen an ethereal creature formed from the mists , so he chalks it up to sleep deprivation.

Apparently, Elend had actually proposed to marry Vin at one point, and she refused him. Ha! Her rejection must not have affected their relationship much, though, because they still seem very close. It would be a shame if Elend were to somehow get himself killed...

He's gonna die, isn't he?

As Vin prepares to go to sleep on the floor next to Elend's chair, Ham walks in. His men have already identified the assassins that attacked Vin. They were actually westerners, and Ham thinks they were hired by some guy named Ashweather Cett. Haha! My suspicions were correct! Straff didn't send them after all.

The chapter ends as Ham shares some of his invaluable optimism and leaves the room.

End of Chapter 3

Now for the post-chapter journal.

The guy who wrote this is named Kwaam, and he's apparently the one who proclaimed Alendi(the person from the 1st book?) to be the Hero Of Ages. I wonder what happened to him when Rashek came back from the Well of Ascension...

Nothing good, probably.

And thus concludes my second blog entry. This blog has already fallen a few chapters behind where I am in the actual book, so I should be able to get an entry out tomorrow as well.

Until then, adiós. :)

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I must admit I am enjoying reading this. Big fan of the Wheel of Time re-read on Tor, so it is nice to have something somewhat similar on the mistborn series. Especially from the POV of a new reader.

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