“All right,” Kelsier said, “let’s get you used to the basic metals. Can you feel your metal reserves?” Vin paused. If she focused, she could distinguish eight sources of power within her—each one far larger, even, than her two had been on the day when Kelsier had tested her. She had been reticent to use her Luck much since then. She was coming to realize that she had been using a weapon she’d never really understood—a weapon that had accidentally drawn the attention of a Steel Inquisitor. “Begin burning them, one at a time,” Kelsier said. “Burning?” “That’s what we call it when you activate an
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