Vin and Kelsier use their powers to fly up to the top of the wall surrounding the city. Then they rise their powers to go out into the mist. They see a mist wraith. A horribly terrifying looking creature. Its like a giant centipede but its segments are made up of bones of dead animals its absorbed. One segment will be a person and another segment will be a deer. Kelsier explains they're not really dangerous. They survive picking up and absorbing dead things they find. They don't generally attack alive things. Kelsier has a coachman waiting for them. He's going to take them to this fake Lord's manner in the town an hour away. They meet the fake lord and Vin really appreciates his performance as a fake lord. He's got an air of aristocracy and arrogance without having to constantly scream at his underlings like Cayman, the former gang leader that's been drug off to mist knows where, used to do when he was impersonating a lord. Also the lordly manner is VERY clean and Vin just can't shut up about it. Its the cleanest building she's ever seen.
The initial plan was for the fake lord to present Vin as his heir. But that just won't do. There are far too many relatives of the real lord with much better claims for this to be believed. It would draw too much attention. So instead they're going to claim that Vin is a distant poor (by lordly standards) relative that the fake lord is trying to marry off. This will be good because now they've got a pretext to go to balls and what not that the fake.lord wouldn't go to by himself. The coachman's name is something like Sext. He says kelsier is a good man. Vin says she's never known a good man.
ch 9 pg 171
Vin has been practicing alomany and she's getting real giid at the metal pushing and pulling. The coachman is named Sazed and he's part of an ancient group of learned peoples that the empire has nearly hunted to extinction. He's been training Vin in courtly manners first weeks to get her so she's presentable at court. They need her to get in good with the Nobel's and spy on them. The squad has been building up an army. Preparation for the revolution is a balancing act. You wannabe as prepared as you can be,
but also they have time move as fast as they can as everyday the danger of getting found out grows
ch 10 pg 185
Vin and Kelsier are back in the city. Holding meetings to recruit people to join their army. Vin is training with breeze while kelsier gives Hus speach. Watching as Breeze manipulates peoples feelings with his power. On the whole recruitment is not going well. The heist crew get together to have a meeting. Big problem is that they don't have a spy in the government. Vin says the guy running the longboat scam might be abke time bribe the right government guy to slip in a spy. Bad news, Vin's gang's hideout has been found by the government.
ch 11 pg 204
They go to the hide out and it's super bad. Blood and body parts everywhere. This was done by a steel inquisitor. Kelsier takes to the streets to find vins old boss. He finds him strung up. Vin followed him. They look at her old boss's dead body together.
ch 12 pg 213
Vin goes to a ball. She's very nervous at first cause she's worried she'll get spotted as a phony. But then she's nervous because boys are going to ask her to dance. Sazed says to tell them she's too nervous to dance. All the boys she tells this to are understanding. She sees a balcony and decides to go up it. There she meets a boy who likes this spot cause he can hide from the party and read. He says his name is Elend. He tells her Sazed has returned to their table and she should go there so he can read in Peace. When she tells Sazed this he says she was talking to THE lord Elend Venture. Of the most powerful Nobel house that Kelseir invaded and stole from.
ch 13 pg 232
They talk briefly to Kelsier after the ball about what transpired. The main take away is that Vin is not allowed to interact with Lord Elend Venture anymore. It'll attract too much attention.
Kelsier leaves and Vin follows him. There's this cool trail of copper rods that goes from here to the capital. Using her alomancy to sort of bounce from rod to rod Vin gets to the capital in half the time of a horse ride. She's been following Kelsier but then all of a sudden he's behind her with his hand on her shoulder. What she was really following was Kelsiers coin purse and he dumped it and doubled back to catch her. He says she should go back to their fake lordly manner. She wants to hang out with him and do allomancy. He shows her how the tenth metal works. It let's you see into the future a little bit. This is HUGE in a fight. Someone burning that metal will always beat someone that isn't. He then tells her to go back again because he's going to get up to some shenhanegans at the great redundant one's house. She's all, Nah, I'm coming along.
ch 14 pg 244
They're going into the depths of the redundant one's lair. They cut through guards like a hot knife through butter. Everything seems to be going well as they get closer to the inner sanctum that Kelsier thinks holds the answers to the mysteries he wants to solve about the redundant one. Then things go horribly wrong. There's three steel inquistors. Kelsier tells VIN to run. He's previously stated he's no match for a steel inquistor. There's no way in hell the two of them can beat three. So Vin runs while she's prety sure Keslier will be dead in a matter of moments. Vin uses her fancy see the future metal and gets a handle on a big ole book and uses it to fight off one of the inqusitors. Inquisitors carry around obsidian knifes and while being fought with book, he stabs with knife. Vin brought a book to a knife fight. But she burns her pewter to make her super strong and she's able to get away. Then she's grabbed from behind, at first she thinks it's the inquistor, then she thinks it's Kelsier, but it's not. It's somebody else. Find out who in chapter 15.
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