“Jastes,” he said. “She’s skaa!” “And?” “And she fooled me—fooled us both. She acted the part of an aristocrat almost perfectly.” “An inexperienced aristocrat, perhaps.” “I had a real skaa thief with me!” Elend said. “Think of the questions I could have asked her.” “Questions? What kind of questions?” “Questions about being skaa,” Elend said. “That’s not the point. Jastes, she fooled us. If we can’t tell the difference between a skaa and a noblewoman, that means that the skaa can’t be all that different from us. And if they’re not that different from us, what right do we have treating them as
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