Vin spies on Ham in the Mists
This chapter has another poetic introduction—I warned you about those, I believe. I hope it isn’t too out of place.
Testing Ham in this way is something Vin really should have done earlier in the book. The problem is, I have a lot of things I need to pack into a relatively short space of time in this book. I did things in order of importance, and—oddly—testing the crewmembers took a lower precedent than getting Allrianne into the city or introducing Elend’s plan to deal with the warlords.
But, finally, we get to work a little bit on the impostor plot. There are dozens of ways that Vin could have gotten Ham to burn pewter—but she wanted to do one where he didn’t know she was there and he where he would use the metal reflexively. She also wanted to do it when she knew he was alone. That way, she couldn’t be fooled by someone burning pewter nearby to make it seem like Ham was burning.
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