Originally, you may be amused to hear, I was going to have Vin go on this trip with Yeden, with Kelsier staying behind. I even wrote about half of the ‘leave for the caves’ scene with Kelsier telling Vin he’s going to send her with Yeden.
I’m still not sure what I was thinking.
Fortunately, I came to my senses, and I quickly reworked the scene. Vin had to stay in Luthadel—she’s go too much to do there. But, I did want to get a chance to look over the army, so I sent Kelsier instead. It worked out very well, as I was able to do some other things—such as have Kelsier show off for the troops.
However, I didn’t want to spend TOO long out here. When Vin had been the one coming to the caves, I’d planned two or three chapters. When it became Kelsier, I knew I wanted to shrink it to one chapter. So, that’s why we get the kind of weird ‘time passes’ omniscient bit at the beginning of the second section.
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