"Very well. I'll return in, oh, let's say an hour."
He exits through the secret door, closes it behind him, and launches himself out the nearest window. Retrieving some memories about exactly which Inquisitors have the spikes he needs, he forms some educated guesses about where in Luthadel they'll be. Soon he's floating above one such place, flaring iron to sense metal strongly enough to pick out human shapes.
Few people wear metal. Most show up only as thin outlines where there's iron in their blood. A few, soldiers or guards or suchlike, wear breastplates (easily removable in case they have to fight an Allomancer). Inquisitors look unique to this sense: They have the trace metals in the bloodstream, but there are spikes all around the outline of their bodies and most are carrying metalminds.
When he spots an Inquisitor, the Lord Ruler of the Final Empire dramatically drops from the sky. Surrounded by awed and more often than not terrified onlookers, he states, "You're not Yelbon, are you," and launches back up. The next Inquisitor he spots is the right one.
After collecting four relevant spikes from three Inquisitors, he returns to Kredik Shaw. He directs the first obligator he sees at the palace to wait outside the large domed room because she may be called on. It's intentionally not a high-ranking one whose name Promise might accidentally hear mentioned if she decides she doesn't want to know. Then he unlocks the secret door mechanism, and knocks before opening. The entire process has taken slightly over an hour.
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Date: 2015-01-21 05:54 am (UTC)He exits through the secret door, closes it behind him, and launches himself out the nearest window. Retrieving some memories about exactly which Inquisitors have the spikes he needs, he forms some educated guesses about where in Luthadel they'll be. Soon he's floating above one such place, flaring iron to sense metal strongly enough to pick out human shapes.
Few people wear metal. Most show up only as thin outlines where there's iron in their blood. A few, soldiers or guards or suchlike, wear breastplates (easily removable in case they have to fight an Allomancer). Inquisitors look unique to this sense: They have the trace metals in the bloodstream, but there are spikes all around the outline of their bodies and most are carrying metalminds.
When he spots an Inquisitor, the Lord Ruler of the Final Empire dramatically drops from the sky. Surrounded by awed and more often than not terrified onlookers, he states, "You're not Yelbon, are you," and launches back up. The next Inquisitor he spots is the right one.
After collecting four relevant spikes from three Inquisitors, he returns to Kredik Shaw. He directs the first obligator he sees at the palace to wait outside the large domed room because she may be called on. It's intentionally not a high-ranking one whose name Promise might accidentally hear mentioned if she decides she doesn't want to know. Then he unlocks the secret door mechanism, and knocks before opening. The entire process has taken slightly over an hour.