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[onlysurvivor]

This is supposed to allow us to contact others from home now? Just for today?

[he clears his throat]

All right. If you're listening, I'm sorry I couldn't tell you everything and that I had to die to make it work. I know you've heard this from OreSeur while he looked like me. I know it's not quite the same but it was the best I could do.

You'll make the world green again. I just wish I could be alive to see it.

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[onlysurvivor]

[Huh, talking wolfhound. A kendra? Don't they usually just do humans?]

He didn't. What happened and who are you?

[venturehound]

[In a low, rumbling growl, half-canine.]

Zane ordered me to kill him.

[onlysurvivor]

Really.

What where your orders after that?

[venturehound]

To spy on the Lady Vin, abuse her confidence, sow suspicion and dissension among your former crew, and betray her when they finally fought in earnest.

[Curt, precise.]

[onlysurvivor]

Clever.

[Well, this is fun news. He lets out a long sigh.] She won, I take it.

[godsays]

Stop it. Stop talking to it.

[onlysurvivor]

...Why?

[godsays]

- You knew we were enemies. What did you think I meant?

[onlysurvivor]

Zane, I didn't ask for details because you didn't want to give them. That doesn't mean I don't want the truth.

You're an inmate for a reason.

[godsays]

Because I was what my world made me. Because I was loyal to the wrong person. Because something broke into my mind and rewrote me!

[onlysurvivor]

That might be why the Admiral thinks there is something to be redeemed in you. I'm willing to respect that.

But who you were loyal to was still your choice.

[godsays]

So I should have killed him.

[indispensible]

[Quiet. Firm.]

Him.

[godsays]

What does it matter? They can be either.

[indispensible]

Him.

He deserves respect.

[godsays]

It betrayed you as much as I did. And it deserves respect?

[indispensible]

He protected me, in the end, and risked his own safety doing so.

[godsays]

You were willing to be cruel for Elend. I was willing, for my father.

[venturehound]

She would have died if I had not betrayed him.

[onlysurvivor]

Good for you. That's quite the risk for a kendra. Your people couldn't have been too happy about that.

[venturehound]

I was sentenced to a thousand years in a pit, among other things.

[No. No they were not.]

[onlysurvivor]

[Kelsier makes a ick sound. He doesn't want to think about being a boneless mass stuck in pit.]

Execution?

[venturehound]

[He imagined you wouldn't.]

Eventually.

[Not specifying how.]

[onlysurvivor]

[He doesn't like this news.]

It's not right.

[venturehound]

I committed serious crimes. I knew the likely punishment, and I presented myself for judgement.

[He can't bring himself to say it was right, but part of him is still a traditionalist; he doesn't want to say it was wrong, either.]