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The Well Of Ascension Chapters 6-7


Child Bahkbar

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I'm back with two more chapters of the second Mistborn book!

Part 1

Chapter 6

Even though Elend said he was "too busy" to join them, he ends up watching Vin and Ham's pewter-enhanced sparring session anyway. I guess he really did just want to avoid getting his chull kicked by a little girl.

Clubs shows up and bets on Vin winning the sparring match, thereby giving Elend no choice but to bet against her--not a good idea! What's Vin gonna think about this if she finds out? Has he forgotten that his girlfriend could cripple him with just her pinky finger? After Elend places his bet, he and Clubs move on to more pressing matters. Clubs has been working as Elend's general, so that puts him in charge of supervising the training of the troops. I thought that was Ham's job. Clubs tells Elend that the training of the army is going quite well. In fact, his says he would actually trust them to go up against a mob of old ladies with sticks! While Elend thinks about how great this is, Lestibournes arrives--well, actually, he's been in the city for a few days now, but this is the first Clubs and Elend have seen of him. He's grown about a foot in the past twelve months, and he's even learned to speak proper English. Looks like it's been a pretty good year for him. Sucks about the dialect, though. I'm gonna miss it.

Anyways, Spooks has been doing some spy work off in the West. Someone's started a rumor there that the Lord Ruler's stash is actually concealed somewhere in Luthadel, thereby completely undoing all the work that Elend's put into convincing everyone that it's been hidden someplace else. Why would anyone do such a thing? Whoever planted this rumor must be planning something dastardly.

Using some weird pewter-fu, Vin actually manages to best Ham in the sparring match, and, thanks to Lestibournes big mouth, she finds out that Elend placed his bet against her. She is absolutely heartbroken, and in a fit of rage kills Elend in cold blood. Oh, wait, that's not what happened. Actually, Vin is a little pissed off, but she act out violently against Elend. *sigh* I suppose this means he'll live to see another day. I still think he'll be dead before this book is over, though.

Vin and Elend leave the rest of them to get something to eat, and, later that night, head on down to Vin's chambers together...alone. ;)

Once they enter her rooms they find Oreseur waiting there. He's completed his transformation into a wolfhound, but he still manages to somehow speak like a human. That's pretty cool, I guess. I mean, it still sucks that he has to run around as a dog, but at least he still gets to crack jokes when he wants to... Elend is quite impressed by the kandra's skilled replication of the wolfhound, and he wants to know what he thinks of his new canine body. That's a pretty dumb question, even for Elend. Needless to say, Oreseur finds the body "offensive and degrading". I completely understand. Even kandra have got to have some dignity.

In the end, Vin tells him about her their new arrangement, and she takes him out with her when she leaves. If Oreseur's planning to betray her, tonight would be the perfect opportunity. I doubt he'll do anything, though. He's a loyal hound, after all. *snicker*

End Of Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Yippie! Another Sazed PoV!

This chapter begins with Sazed teaching a group of skaa how to write. Does this mean he's given up on sharing religion for a while? Who is Sazed to these people, anyway? They refer to him as "master Terrisman"-- do they call him that because they know he played a part in the collapse of the Final Empire, or do they show that kind of respect to all Terrismen? They listen to him as well, although they don't seem to be much interested much interest in what he has to say.

Sazed had some pretty unrealistic ideas about what the world would be like once the Lord Ruler finally kicked the bucket. He actually thought that the skaa would just hungrily gobble up all the knowledge he had to share with them; that children and adults together would come running out of their villages to greet him wherever he went. For a super-intelligent feruchemist with a millennium-worth of knowledge, Sazed's got some pretty crazy ideas in his head.

Anywho, some crazy woman interrupts Sazed's lecture screaming about how the Lord Ruler, of all people, has returned. We all know that's impossible. How would she even know what He looks like in the first place? I seriously doubt that any of these skaa have ever laid eyes on the real Lord Ruler.

Sazed goes to the edge of the village to meet this stranger, and, lo and behold, it isn't the Lord Ruler after all, but Kelsier's brother Marsh. There's something strange about him, though. He's become even colder than before, and he refers to the other Inquisitors as "brothers". He tells Sazed that the Conventical of Seran, which is apparently where rest of the High Obligators and Inquisitors fled to after the Lord Rulers death, is empty. Marsh wants Sazed to abandon his work with the villagers and travel there with him. He's noticed that the mists have started appearing before dusk, and he believes they have very little time to waste before something terrible happens. The chapter ends as Sazed leaves to get his things.

-I dunno about this: It all smells kinda fishy to me. Could it be some kind of trap? Is this even the real Marsh?

Things are starting to get interesting. It looks like Sazed's next few chapters may end up being some of the most important in the book, and I'm really looking forward to reading them.

End of Chapter 7

Kwaam is sorry for what Alendi has been forced to become. Does he say this because Alendi actually wasn't the true Hero?

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