As an obvious check, just in case Alendi has been conveniently stupid for once, Promise tries going back through the gate. Arcane, she needs Arcane, or Veracity would do, Whisper to undo her orders, hell, if only Alendi had been careless enough to put her in a room with Thorn she could even use him, beak and all -
But the sorcerer has closed it. She doesn't know how long this takes; she'll be noticed missing but not for hours, damn her introversion.
Fuck. Fuck. She's not certain Ruin can kill fairies. But if she can't do sorcery... and without access to at least one of the other four, she can't - if it wrecks the planet under her feet then even when Alendi inevitably loses hold over someone who wants her back they won't know how to fix a gate on the rubble or void or slag. It might not leave her conscious to come up with more plans. She needs a plan now.
She sears through her zinc. What do I have. What do I have. What do I have.
Okay. The thing that's going to destroy the world is a mind. They were trying to reason with it. It wouldn't talk to them, but it can theoretically be talked to. She can't get to the place the other sorcerers were writing to it without opening the door (not an Allomancer) or walking through the wall (no sorcery), but maybe later it will be able to hold a conversation from here too.
It's called "Ruin" for a reas-
...It's called Ruin.
She's called Promise, but that is not her name.
And Ruin is not a fairy.
This is the longest long shot.
What is its name? If she has its name it can't destroy her so WHAT IS ITS NAME?
She runs out of zinc.
She thinks as the swirl of dust through the air accelerates.
Probably Alendi has already gone home through some other gate.
Okay. What does she know?
Its metal is called "atium". Not "ruinum."
Ati.
The name
snaps
into
place.
Promise is still trapped and still very much constrained. She can't even talk in case it can hear her; she must be quiet.
But she has its name and it cannot destroy her and that means she has more time to think.
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But the sorcerer has closed it. She doesn't know how long this takes; she'll be noticed missing but not for hours, damn her introversion.
Fuck. Fuck. She's not certain Ruin can kill fairies. But if she can't do sorcery... and without access to at least one of the other four, she can't - if it wrecks the planet under her feet then even when Alendi inevitably loses hold over someone who wants her back they won't know how to fix a gate on the rubble or void or slag. It might not leave her conscious to come up with more plans. She needs a plan now.
She sears through her zinc. What do I have. What do I have. What do I have.
Okay. The thing that's going to destroy the world is a mind. They were trying to reason with it. It wouldn't talk to them, but it can theoretically be talked to. She can't get to the place the other sorcerers were writing to it without opening the door (not an Allomancer) or walking through the wall (no sorcery), but maybe later it will be able to hold a conversation from here too.
It's called "Ruin" for a reas-
...It's called Ruin.
She's called Promise, but that is not her name.
And Ruin is not a fairy.
This is the longest long shot.
What is its name? If she has its name it can't destroy her so WHAT IS ITS NAME?
She runs out of zinc.
She thinks as the swirl of dust through the air accelerates.
Probably Alendi has already gone home through some other gate.
Okay. What does she know?
Its metal is called "atium". Not "ruinum."
Ati.
The name
snaps
into
place.
Promise is still trapped and still very much constrained. She can't even talk in case it can hear her; she must be quiet.
But she has its name and it cannot destroy her and that means she has more time to think.