001 + 1st Metal / Voice
[ There are a dozen things he wants to ask. But questions, he knows too well, are a sign of weakness. Like baring one's neck, to another's teeth. Another's knife.
So he hesitates as soon as he starts the journal, stumbles over what he really wants to ask. Ends up blurting something he doesn't really want to say: ] Something told me I wasn't crazy.
[ And he backs up. No. ]
I'm not sure why I'm here.
[ Still too much to say. So he settles for a single question, one that's a trivial issue on his mind: ]
What's a 'shower'?
[ The Final Empire isn't much for internal plumbing. Or running water. ]
So he hesitates as soon as he starts the journal, stumbles over what he really wants to ask. Ends up blurting something he doesn't really want to say: ] Something told me I wasn't crazy.
[ And he backs up. No. ]
I'm not sure why I'm here.
[ Still too much to say. So he settles for a single question, one that's a trivial issue on his mind: ]
What's a 'shower'?
[ The Final Empire isn't much for internal plumbing. Or running water. ]
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But he was killed. By a woman. She managed to defeat him, I don't know how.
[ There might be a barely-perceptible change in his tone when he mentions her. ]
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He's still curious though.]
Do you have abilities?
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Then: ] I'm Mistborn.
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Is there a place on the ship I could find metals? Particular alloys. And exact measurements.
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Unfortunately, that sounds like something you'd need a warden to request from the Admiral for you.
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There are quite a few people on board with abilities, myself among them. I'm a telepath.
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What does that mean?
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Not without permission, obviously.
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Can you speak inside someone's mind?
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