“And that thing? It used to be human?” “The power … distorts,” Khriss said. “There’s a person in that somewhere, directing it. Or perhaps just riding it at this point.” Kelsier remembered the puppet Ruin had presented, the shape of a man. Now basically a shell filled with a terrible power. “So what happens if one of these things … dies?” “I’m very curious to see,” Khriss said. “I’ve never viewed it in person, and the past deaths were different. They were each a single, stunning event, the god’s power shattered and dispersed. This is more like a strangulation, while those were like a beheading.
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