18th metal . spam . duration of flood

[godsays]

[ Zane keeps to the deck as much as possible. (It doesn't occur to him to use the CES, unless someone points it out.)

He balances on the railing easily, as naturally as if he was standing on solid ground. Darts along it, trying to see the bottom of the endless well of stars, if there is one. Maybe he tosses a coin out into the emptiness and Pushes it down, trying to see if it ever stops.

Otherwise, he'll be on top of the greenhouse, climbing things, staying as high as he can.

When he's belowdecks, he similarly tries to stick to open rooms and high places. Between them, he moves quickly, with the awareness of someone who is ready for attack.

He also steals bits of metal, wherever he can. Cutlery, coins. Whatever he can find. ]

[ ooc: replies from venturemistborn. ]

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[venturemistborn]

Prisons don't have cities in them. Neither do boats. And neither does the sky.

[onlysurvivor]

Boats aren't supposed to fly.

[Don't mind him casually walking over to the door that leads off to the CTS. He opens the door. Zane can see for himself.]

[venturemistborn]

[ He drifts a little closer, disbelieving the evidence of his senses. ]

What House are you from?

[onlysurvivor]

[Well, that gets a laugh.]

None of them.

[venturemistborn]

That's impossible.

[onlysurvivor]

Is it? I have a skaa mother and my father would rather see me dead. I belong to no house.

[venturemistborn]

Why would your father want you dead? You're Mistborn.

[onlysurvivor]

If I ever find him, I'll ask him.

But if I were to guess, it's easier for him to admit ignorance to the canton of inquisition and trade our lives for his.

[venturemistborn]

He must not be very ambitious or clever.

[onlysurvivor]

I wouldn't know.

[venturemistborn]

My father outwits the Inquisitors.

[onlysurvivor]

At your expense.

[venturemistborn]

I'm pure blood. He didn't have to for me.

[onlysurvivor]

Did he hide you?

[Turning to go into CTS even before he gets an answer.]

[venturemistborn]

[ Zane will follow, then, not wanting to end the conversation. ]

Yes. Someday I'll be important, though.

[onlysurvivor]

[As promised, there is a city inside a room.]

You already are, your father is just blindest tineye.

[he drops a coin and jumps to a rooftop]

[venturemistborn]

[ He uses the coin himself, a little shove against it to take him up at an angle from Kelsier. He lands on the edge of a balcony rail. ]

I know. Mistborn are always important.

[ He sounds tired of hearing this. And like he doesn't really believe it. ]

[onlysurvivor]

That wasn't what I meant.

[He's tired of this himself.]

So, how fast are you?

[venturemistborn]

Faster than you.

[ He issues this like a challenge. ]