“Why?” he whispered. “Why leave me like this? I studied everything about you. I learned the religions of five hundred different peoples and sects. I taught about you when other men had given up a thousand years before. “Why leave me without hope, when others can have faith? Why leave me to wonder? Shouldn’t I be more certain than any other? Shouldn’t my knowledge have protected me?” Yet his faith had made him more susceptible. That’s what trust is, Sazed thought. It’s about giving someone else power over you. Power to hurt you. That was why he’d given up his metalminds. That was why he had
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