I've just now noticed that, unlike in the Wheel of Time, the chapters are unnamed.

Part 1

Chapter 8

Vin is flying around in the mists like she does every night. The only difference is that Oreseur's with her this time, and she's deliberately trying to make it difficult for him to keep up time. Thanks in part to his new canine senses, the kandra able to follow her with very little difficulty.

I'm still not entirely clear on what exactly Vin does when she's out here. Does she just run around the city looking for suspicious behavior? If that's the whole purpose of these nighttime adventures, then she definitely shouldn't be disappointed tonight. The most suspicious man in all of Luthadel, the Watcher, makes an appearance. When she notices him, Vin tosses off the belt containing her extra metals and runs off after him--I get the feeling this might come back to bite her.

Vin chases the watcher to the fountain in the middle of the city, where they (almost) clash blades. He's good. Really good, actually. If he seriously wanted to kill her, I'm not sure if she'd be able to fend him off. The Watcher flees and hides in some abandoned building the first chance he gets, using copper to mask his allomancy--bloody craven. Vin can still tell where he is, of course, but she can't attack him now because she doesn't want to give away her copper-piercing ability. So, what does she do? Well, she burns duralumin, of course. Burning this almost completely untested and possibly dangerous metal will surely lure this sneaky bastard out of his hiding place.

The duralumin does affect the burning of other metals after all. It drastically amplifies her allomantic abilities, but also burns her metals incredibly quickly. In just a few seconds, her Pewter, tin, and brass reserves are completely exhausted, and she's left stunned on the ground from the ultra sensitive senses her "duralumined" tin gave her. She's completely defenseless now! If the Watcher or Oreseur really wanted her dead, this would have been the perfect opportunity to take her out. Fortunately for her, though, neither of them do. When Oreseur catches up, he gives her the belt containing her allomantic potions instead of a knife in the back, but while Vin's attention is on Oreseur, the Watcher leaves his hiding place and manages to sneak up on her. I suppose Vin's brilliant plan worked after all, Burning the duralumin did lure him out. Instead of putting her in the ground, though, he just stands there watching her. Vin asks him who the hell he is, and he replies that he's "an enemy". He also claims that he assisted her against the assassins because he is quite mad. That makes sense to me. I imagine most stalkers aren't quite right in the head, anyway.

After making sure she's perfectly alright, the Watcher drops a coin and leaps off into the night, and Vin just lets him go. She got really freaking lucky tonight. If she'd been up against another, more sane, allomancer, she would be dead right now.

Vin tells Oreseur she's going to have to make a harness for him to store her metals in. He says that won't be necessary, and makes a flesh-compartment to keep the vials in his shoulder instead. That's...cool, I guess. Gross, but cool.

Once again, he has proven himself to be a quite adept servant. He apparently lives only to serve, so why does Vin still disdain him so much?

End of Chapter 8

It's revealed in the post-chapter journal entry that Alendi was just a wee lad when Kwaam first met him, so they must have known each other for a while before he came to the conclusion that Alendi was the Hero. They must have grown quite close during this time. I imagine it was no easy thing for him to betray the man after such a long friendship.

Chapter 9

This one's another Sazed chapter, and he's still traveling with Marsh to the Inquisitor stronghold. Marsh tells him that he should go back to Luthadel once they're done with the conventical. That something very important is going to take place there. Something that will never, ever be forgotten...

How the heck does he know this? Did the "inquisitorization" process somehow give him prophetic abilities, or is there something else going on here? Now that I think about it, we don't even know what Marsh has been up to for the past year. Who knows what discoveries he might've made during that time.

Sazed reluctantly agrees to go to Luthadel, and the chapter ends.

I'm starting to see a pattern with Sazed's chapters so far. They're all really short. Especially this one. Hopefully they'll arrive at the Conventical in the next chapter, and it'll be at least 5 times as long as this one.

Kwaam's notes at the end of the chapter say that Alendi towered over everyone else, and that something about him demanded respect. Probably that Terrisman blood he had running through his veins.