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Vin shrugged "Fine Hopefully, none of the secrets Kelsier wants us to discover in this text are related to the Terrisman powers--if they are, I’ll miss them completely"

Sazed paused

"Ah, well," Vin said nonchalantly, flipping through the pages she hadn’t read "Looks like he spends a lot of tiive ood point," Sazed said slowly "Even if you make it a bit melodramatically"

Vin sh "We should not have let you spend so much time with Master Breeze, I think"

"The book," Vin said "They’re Keepers?"

Sazed nodded "Whatcall Keepers were far s are arants the ability to store certain physical attributes inside bits of metal"

Vin frowned "You burn metals too?"

"No, Mistress," Sazed said with a shake of his head "Feruchemists aren’t like Allomancers--we don’t ‘burn’ away our e Each piece of metal, dependent upon size and alloy, can store a certain physical quality The Feruchemist saves up an attribute, then draws upon that reserve at a later tith?"

Sazed nodded "In the text, the Terris pack up strength in their bracelets for use on the next day"

Vin studied Sazed’s face "That’s why you wear soover to pull up his sleeves Underneath his robe, he wore thick iron bracers around his upper ars, earrings, and other items of jewelry has always been a part of Terris culture The Lord Ruler once tried to enforce a ban upon Terris anye, rather than a skaa one"

Vin frowned "That’s odd," she said "One would think that the nobility wouldn’t want to wear metal, because that would make them vulnerable to Allomancy"

"Indeed," Sazed said "However, it has long been ian, I suspect, with the Lord Ruler’s desire to deny the Terris s and bracelets, and the nobility always follows him in fashion Nowadays, the most wealthy often wear metal as a symbol of power and pride"

"Sounds foolish," Vin said

"Fashion often is, Mistress," Sazed said "Regardless, the ploy failed--many of the nobility only ood painted to look like ed to weather the Lord Ruler’s discontent in this area It was simply too impractical to never let stewards handleto exterminate the Keepers, however"

"He fears you"

"And hates us Not just Feruchemists, but all Terrismen" Sazed laid a hand on the still untranslated portion of the text "I hope to find that secret in here as well No one remembers why the Lord Ruler persecutes the Terris people, but I suspect that it has so to do with those packmen--their leader, Rashek, appears to be a very contrary man The Lord Ruler often speaks of hiion," Vin said "The Terris religion So about prophecies?"

Sazed shook his head "I cannot answer that question, Mistress, for I don’t know any ion than you do"

"But, you collect religions," Vin said "You don’t know about your own?"

"I do not," Sazed said solemnly "You see, Mistress, this hy the Keepers were foro, my people hid away the last few Terris Ferucherowing quite violent--this was before he began the breeding program Back then, eren’t stewards or servants--eren’t even skaa We were so kept the Lord Ruler froht genocide too kind a punish the first two centuries of his rule The organization of Keepers was for the next century, itsthat which had been lost, then re for the future"

"With Ferucheers across the bracer on his right are of hts Each Keeper carries several bracers like this, filled with knowledge--songs, stories, prayers, histories, and languages Many Keepers have a particular area of interest--ion--but we all remember the entire collection If just one of us survives until the death of the Lord Ruler, then the world’s people will be able to recover all that they have lost"

He paused, then pulled down his sleeve "Well, not all that was lost There are still things we are ion," Vin said quietly "You never found it, did you?"

Sazed shook his head "The Lord Ruler ibook that it was our prophets that led him to the Well of Ascension, but even this is new information for us What did we believe? What, or whom, did orship? Where did these Terris prophets come from, and how did they predict the future?"

"I’m… sorry"

"We continue to look, Mistress We will find our answers eventually, I think Even if we do not, ill still have provided an invaluable service for mankind Other people call us docile and servile, but we have fought him, in our oay"

Vin nodded "So, what other things can you store? Strength andelse?"

Sazed eyed her "I have said too much already, I think You understand the mechanics of e do--if the Lord Ruler s in his text, you will not be confused"

"Sight," Vin said, perking up "That’s why you wore glasses for a feeeks after you rescued ht when you saved e Then you spent a feeeks eak vision so that you could refill it"

Sazed didn’t respond to the co to turn back to his translation "Was there anything else, Mistress?"

"Yes, as athe handkerchief from her sleeve "Do you have any idea what this is?"

"It appears to be a handkerchief, Mistress"