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[onlysurvivor]

[Kelsier smiles brightly to the feed. He waves a scarred hand at the camera.]

For those who I haven't personally irritated, my name is Kelsier. I'm dead. Well, I'm fairly certain I am.

I'm curious, how many of us know for certain we are dead? At home. Not here, of course, or I am a very articulate and lively corpse.

[SPAM FOR MARSH]

[Kelsier is the annoying little brother sometimes. Scratch that, all the time.

And today it comes as a knock on Marsh's door.]


[Greenhouse spam]

[Late into the evening, Kelsier is found in the greenhouse near a bed of a certain type of flower. Now and then, he says something to them. He sits on the floor.

Later into the night, he falls asleep there.]

Comments

[shakenandlimp]

I am certain of it. Two tons of gunpowder should not have left many survivors.

[onlysurvivor]

Gun powder is an... explosive, correct?

[shakenandlimp]

Yes, that is what it does. With gusto.

[onlysurvivor]

And you were caught in the middle?

[shakenandlimp]

Off to one side. But not far enough off by a long way.

[onlysurvivor]

It sounds like a terrible way to go.

[shakenandlimp]

It was too quick to be very bad. I barely had time to know what had happened.

[onlysurvivor]

That's a small comfort.

[shakenandlimp]

It was a quick death and in the service of harassing the Frogs, so it is nearly what I'd have chosen for myself.

[onlysurvivor]

Mine wasn't nearly as quick but it was one I chose.

[shakenandlimp]

Not self-slaughter, I hope?

[onlysurvivor]

No, no. Some might call it that but I tried to kill someone much more powerful. I intervened at a public execution. When... I realized I couldn't defeat him, I became what the people needed most.

[shakenandlimp]

...a martyr.

[onlysurvivor]

We didn't have a name for it but yes.