03 / video

[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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[godsays]

No.

[ Zane has gone stiff, half-panicked. This can't be happening. He doesn't want Kelsier to hear the things he's done. ]

[venturehound]

I'm afraid our contract is concluded.

[Hahahaha can't stop me]

[godsays]

Kandra - !

[venturehound]

Human.

[godsays]

If you didn't want to kill one of your own, it should have been in the Contract.

[venturehound]

You were on occasion a clever master. I will not lie and say you were not cruel.

[godsays]

I did what I had to.

[venturehound]

You did what humans do, and worse than most.

[godsays]

It was what I had to do.

[venturehound]

How were you compelled?

[godsays]

My father -

And the Voice.

[venturehound]

Your father was a more tolerable master than you were.

[godsays]

He was stupider.

The Voice is gone now.

[venturehound]

I don't care. He used me unpleasantly. You used me to kill.

I did not want to be a killer.

[godsays]

Neither did I.

And yet there was something inside me. A spike that it used to rewrite me.

[venturehound]

[He shouldn't, really. But everyone knows, now. And Zane is dead.]

And I have four. It drove me to strangle a friend. I killed myself first.

You are a creature of Ruin. But you still had a choice.

[godsays]

...a creature of what?

[venturehound]

What you call the Voice. You are human. Even with a spike, it could not force you.

[Which of those last two words had the emphasis? Hard to say.]

[godsays]

It - brainwashed me. It changed the things I could think about. It made me insane.

[venturehound]

It twisted you, you are a twisted thing.

You still chose.

[godsays]

A man shouldn't kill his own father.

[venturehound]

A kandra should not kill at all. Let alone his brother.

What does your father have to do with it? He didn't force me. You did.

[godsays]

He told me what to do.

[venturehound]

You were not under contract. Humans disobey their fathers all the time.

[godsays]

I loved him. I hated him for all the cruelty he did, but I loved him because he was my father.