The Well of Ascension: Book Two of Mistborn

He was tall, impressive. Like … Kelsier.

Luthadel was like a man with a knife pressed very closely to his throat. Each breath cut the skin.

I’m eighteen, not ten.” You might as well be,

I represent that thing you’ve never been able to kill, no matter how hard you try.

“Tell me what you do mean, and I will be certain to believe as commanded.”

“He changed the world, Sazed.” He frowned. “What?” “The Lord Ruler,” she whispered. “He created the Ashmounts. The records say he made the vast deserts around the empire, that he broke the land in order to preserve it. Why should we assume that things look like they did when he first climbed to the Well? He created mountains. Why couldn’t he have f

I thought myself the Holy First Witness, the prophet foretold to discover the Hero of Ages. Renouncing Alendi then would have been to renounce my new position, my acceptance by the others.

mind thumping. Or was that the Well of Ascension …

he had obviously been trying to get Vin to collide with him again.