23rd metal . CTS spam
[ It's after Cassel's announcement that Zane can be found in the CTS.
The scene is medieval - or, ancient, anyway. Armor, swords, horses. A battle. As the door out of the CTS closes behind him, they surround him, weapons braced. He blinks back anguished emotion, and tosses back a vial of metals, and touches steel, pewter.
He launches into the air, and the fight begins.
There are hundreds of them, and only one of him: and yet. He slaughters them. He uses the metal they carry to Push and Pull himself; he is always faster, always stronger, and he is the utter picture of grace.
He kills them all.
And when they are dead, the bright green hill of a battlefield strewn with corpses, he goes into the forest. Braces himself against one tree and flings metal at another, a thud-thud of swords, knives, shields whipping and burying themselves into the bark. He Pushes, and Pushes, until finally the tree splinters and collapses, crashing slowly and mightily into the ground.
He keeps destroying the trees, over and over, until someone interrupts - or another army shows up. ]
The scene is medieval - or, ancient, anyway. Armor, swords, horses. A battle. As the door out of the CTS closes behind him, they surround him, weapons braced. He blinks back anguished emotion, and tosses back a vial of metals, and touches steel, pewter.
He launches into the air, and the fight begins.
There are hundreds of them, and only one of him: and yet. He slaughters them. He uses the metal they carry to Push and Pull himself; he is always faster, always stronger, and he is the utter picture of grace.
He kills them all.
And when they are dead, the bright green hill of a battlefield strewn with corpses, he goes into the forest. Braces himself against one tree and flings metal at another, a thud-thud of swords, knives, shields whipping and burying themselves into the bark. He Pushes, and Pushes, until finally the tree splinters and collapses, crashing slowly and mightily into the ground.
He keeps destroying the trees, over and over, until someone interrupts - or another army shows up. ]
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...what do you think now?
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[He shakes his head.] I found something else to fill that void but nothing can replace what I lost.
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I've thrown hundreds of daggers, but I've never used a knife to slice a vegetable. That isn't right.
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You can reform yourself into anything you want now, Zane.
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I liked this. Whether or not it was me that put it there, I like killing now. I don't think I can change that.
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[He stands up and pulls one of his daggers out of a fallen soldier's neck.] But I understand the feeling. More than you realize.
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[He cleans his blade on his Mistcloak.]
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[he glances back] Even if he has, you're not abandoned. Not here.
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I'm not insulting you when I say this. But he's important to me.
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My wife is dead, Zane. He's coming back. She's not and there is nothing I can do about it. Don't throw this away by thinking you've lost something you've always had.
[He drops a coin, CTS starts to change near him, sensing difference in him. He Pushes into the air into newly materialized spires. ]
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[ He's angry at this implication - the reason it's so precious is because it's so new, and so unique in his experience.
He follows Kelsier into the air, Pushing from the same coin. ]
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[He crests the tower, pauses on its tip for a half second, sighs and glances back.]
You're a child wallowing in his own despair.
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You think I came in here to avoid him?
[ This is a judgment that Zane finds incredibly unfair. He is trying to learn ways to cope with his emotions. He already said that the only way to know if he lost Cassel or not is to continue on. To live day by day. That's what he's doing, and he came here to work out his emotion. To deal with it.
And this is what Kelsier thinks of him? ]
To borrow a phrase from Chris: fuck you.
[ Zane is incensed, and he turns away and steps off of the tower. Going straight to the door. He doesn't have to listen to it. ]