AonEne

Well hey, welcome to the Shard! I love our community here, and I'm glad you've found someplace to be!

You know, if you ever want to change careers, I offer great benefits, better pay, and will let you kill people on other planets. If you’re interested, stick with Ganache. Eryn's expertise with chocolate, a type of which was ganache... Sovereign could, maybe. Take you where Ett cannot reach. That had been the Sovereign - the Survivor - speaking to Marie, and he meant the Southern woman when he said Ganache. She reflected on that as she followed Adilie down to the dining room, leaning against a wall the full twenty meters away. Kelsier, Survivor of Hathsin: half-noble thief turned Mistborn turned face of the revolution. The man who'd died to kill the Lord Ruler and who had made a big dent in his empire before that. The man who, reportedly, had been the first person ever to single-handedly kill an Inquisitor (not counting Rashek himself). Marie wasn't sure what to think of him. Ruin had been obsessed with him, and she was vaguely aware that he had been a god three times over. The Survivor pulled people after him like a riptide, and they escaped him even less often. The idea of another option besides joining Harmony, wandering the planet for another few centuries, or dying was...well, tempting, yeah, but she couldn't tell if it was viable. For one thing, there was the chance that the Survivor actually meant to round up the remainder of his enemies and finish them off; she'd heard he didn't easily let go of grudges. And if it was real...she listened to him question Adilie about what Harmony would do if her Compounding went out and Marie bucked the control at the same time. Harmony was listening, too. He left her to her own devices, but she could feel the mass of power, the idea of him paying particular attention to this conversation. Maybe he would just let her go. Another planet...there would be so many opportunities. And other Shards. Would that be a good thing or a bad thing? Depends on how much like Ruin they are. But then, maybe he'd see loosing a potentially genocidal Inquisitor on another world as a threat, a declaration of war. Would he feel as responsible for their inhabitants as Scadrial's? Would he oppose his old friend if Kelsier tried to steal her? The pay, if it was more than a joke, wasn't something Marie cared about much. The promise of deaths...and a new world...those were more enticing. Wonder what the flora and fauna are like over there. He would probably Soothe her. She wasn't exactly trustworthy. But it would still be more than now... Marie sighed softly, watching the group. She found herself smiling at the child and made her face go blank before any of them noticed. She had tapped a bit of bendalloy on the way back to the inn, and didn't need to eat, but she did swallow another handful of steel pellets, washing a couple at a time down with water.

And then eaten.

Wayne

Welcome to the Shard!

Welcome to the Shard!

I also might be interested if it's forum-based.

I've warned this thread multiple times to not spam, and that means spirit of the law, not just word. Guys, if this thread continues doing this, it might be locked.

The poles weren't interested in helping them out.

Only by ice.

Either form of it.

And landed in the ocean on Earth.

And went to Neptune.

Marie frowned at her. "Pointing at someone with a knife is an entirely different thing from killing them. Do you know what death is?"

But so was the planet.

"The wall, I'll admit, was not attacking me. But a wall isn't a person. The only people I attacked were those who came in punching."

And also sad.

"The people attacked me," she snapped.

They were jonesing for a kill.

"Nothing - her orders, theoretically, would only matter because she used the Metallic Arts to force them down my throat." "They attacked me first and you know it," Marie said calmly, the faintest dusting of smugness over her words like ash.

Killed by a rival faction.

Marie shrugged causally. "I'm not killing anyone right now. Prove that I would have if you weren't holding me back."

It would never get it, though.