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"Good wine," he said with a grunt Then he looked over at Kelsier "So, the Pits really did drive you insane, eh?"

"Coht face

Clubs sh on his face the expression had a decidedly twisted look "You h with this, then? This so-called job of yours?"

Kelsier nodded soleot yourself a Sh If you’re really serious about toppling this government, then I’m in"

Kelsier smiled

"And don’t smile at me," Clubs snapped "I hate that"

"I wouldn’t dare"

"Well," Dockson said, pouring himself another drink, "that solves the Smoker proble to fail I’ve spent s froets the us, then?" Dockson asked

"Because," Clubs said, standing "The Lord’s going to get me sooner or later At least this way, I’ll be able to spit in his face as I go Overthrowing the Final Eot to get the shop ready for visitors"

Vin watched the it closed behind thelanced at Kelsier "You knew he’d co "I hoped People are attracted to vision The job I’ you walk away froenerally annoyed at life Now, Vin, I assu?"

Vin nodded "The shop upstairs is a front"

"Good," Kelsier said, checking his pocket watch, then handing it to Dockson "Tell your friends that they can have their lair back--theout"

"And us?" Dockson asked

Kelsier s to the roof Like I told you, I have to fetch some atium"

By day, Luthadel was a blackened city, scorched by soot and red sunlight It was hard, distinct, and oppressive

At night, however, the hostly, loorowa lonely, dangerous alleyway Even nobleht--it took a strong heart to brave the foreboding, ht was a place for the desperate and the foolhardy; it was a land of swirling e creatures like e that ran around the lip of the flat-roofed lair Shadowed buildings loo seehts peeked from the occasional , but the tiny beads of illus

A cool breeze slipped across the rooftop, shifting the haze, brushing against Kelsier’s mist-wetted cheek like an exhaled breath In days past--back before everything had gone wrong--he had always sought out a rooftop on the evening before a job, wishing to overlook the city He didn’t realize he was observing his old custo Mare to be there next to him, as she always had been

Instead, he found only the empty air Lonely Silent The hed and turned Vin and Dockson stood behind him on the rooftop Both looked apprehensive to be out in the et far in the underworld without learning to stomach the mists

Kelsier had learned to do farthe to feelembrace, than he did at day

"Kell," Dockson said, "do you have to stand on the ledge like that? Our plans may be a bit crazy, but I’d rather not have them end with you splattered across the cobblestones down there"

Kelsier sht It will take so used to for all of them

Years before, he had become the most infamous crewleader in Luthadel, and he had done it without even being an Allomancer Mare had been a Tineye, but he and Dockson…they had just been regular men One a half-breed with no powers, the other a runaway plantation skaa Together, they had brought Great Houses to their knees, stealing brashly from the most powerful men in the Final Empire

Now Kelsier wasfor a power like Mare’s She had been dead before he’d Snapped, co to his powers She would never see what he would do with theh nobility had feared him It had taken a trap set by the Lord Ruler himself to capture Kelsier Nowthe Final Empire itself would shake before he was finished with it