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17th metal . text

[ Kelsier brought him a rabbit.

A strange-looking rabbit with fur around its face. And then Kelsier left.

Zane stares at the rabbit.

It stares back.

He picks up his communicator, finally, breaking a long silence. He doesn't want to go through the process of apologizing to people. He wants them to be apologized to, but he can't... he doesn't know how to begin.

So: ]

What do you do with a rabbit

[ deck spam ]

[ ...and now he is hunting. On deck. For the hidden rabbit supplies. Damn it Kelsier. ]

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[She doesn't try to keep his hand, following him instead out the door and up to the deck. For the most part, she keeps her silence, and scans the deck with slowly arching eyebrows.]

Did he really hide it? [She's watching, when she's not looking; afraid and tense is not out-of-control, and that's good enough. Afraid in tense is just another state of clinging to control.]

He hid it all - separately.

[ Unbeknownst to him, they're looking this time for a colorful rabbit hay rack. ]

[She doesn't say that he's ridiculous, but the look is on her face. She lapses into silence for a long while, searching - though she doesn't go terribly far.

Eventually, she points toward a spot under a bench, where colors have caught her eye.]

What is that?

[ He goes for it, and fishes it out from beneath, a look of exasperation on his face. ]

Something I could have found in a moment if I had iron or steel.

[ Damn all of them, anyhow. ]

[She hesitates for a moment, because though she has her qualms, she likes Charles: but she remembers all too well what helplessness feels like.]

Is there anything I could bring you?

[ This is wrong. It was wrong when he asked Cassel for it, and it's wrong now. ]

To work my powers?

[ Charles gives him copper and tin. ]

Zinc. Iron. [ These are the only ones that might be safe; the only pure elements. ] The pure element, not... it can't be in an alloy. But it can be in any form.

But I don't know where you'd find them.

[She pauses, not certain; and when and idea occurs to her, she cocks her head to the side.]

There may be something. In the infirmary there are iron supplements, they're - [She holds her thumb and forefinger up, indicating something tiny] small capsules that you swallow. Would they be enough?

[ A quiet spark, in his eyes, then. ]

It would be.

[ Depending on how much iron was in them - but if he can burn trace amounts, then he can burn that. ]

I'll bring you some if I can.

[A beat. She wants to tell him it's for protection, or not to hurt anyone. She wants to care, but she doesn't.] Charles isn't to know.

I won't tell him.

I'll stop by your room tomorrow.

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