Difference between revisions of "Summary:The Way of Kings"

When approached by another slave about escaping, Kaladin gruffly tells him that he has no plans to escape, because it will never work. A second slave approaches Kaladin and asks how he came to be a slave. When Kaladin doesn't respond, the other men tell their stories. It eventually comes out that Kaladin killed a man, but the one he did not kill is the reason he's a slave.

Kaladin idly toys with a leaf of [[blackbane]], contemplating using it to poison [[Tvlakv]], his slave trader. A [[windspren]] in the form of a slender young woman, but only a handspan tall, speaks to Kaladin and wants to know what the blackbane is. Kaladin is surprised becausethat she knows his name. InAs thethey ensuing conversationconverse, he observes that she is much more intelligent than a typical [[spren]]. When she asks why he doesn't fight anymore, he says that he has failed.

Kaladin sees Tvlakv going to inspect a sick slave. Kaladin tells him that the man has the grinding coughs, and will survive if given extra water. Tvlakv removes the man from the rest of the slaves, and Kaladin thinks he is going to give him water. Instead, [[Bluth]] brutally murders the man. Kaladin is upset over his failure to save the manhim.

In his anger at the other slavesslave's murder, he crushed the blackbane against the bars of the wagon, losing most of it.