Be careful what you speak. It can hear what you say. It can read what you write. Only your thoughts are safe. Vin shivered. Only your thoughts are safe. What had the Lord Ruler learned in his moments of transcendence? What things had he kept in his mind forever, never writing them down for fear of revealing his knowledge, always expecting that he would eventually be the one who took the power when it came again? Had he perhaps planned to use that power to destroy the thing that Vin had released? You have doomed yourselves.… The Lord Ruler’s last words, spoken right before Vin had thrust the
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