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===Chapter Six: Bridge Four===
Kaladin and the rest of the slave caravan have arrived at the Shattered Plains, specifically at the warcamp of [[Highprince Sadeas]]. They are taken to a women who is to decide whether she can use any of the slaves or not. She is impressed with Kaladin, and he tries to convince her to let him fight in the army. Tvlakv steps in and tells her that she is a deserter, contradicting Kaladin's claim that he is a murderer, and ruining any hope he had of fighting.
The woman decides that Kaladin and his companions are to be made members of the bridge crews. When Kaladin is introduced to his new immediate superior officer, [[Gaz]], he immediately dislikes him. The feeling is mutual, and when the [[bridgemen]] are called upon almost immediately after Kaladin's arrival for a bridge run, he gives Kaladin one of the worst locations on the bridge, near the back, also neglecting to give him the vest and shoes bridgemen normally wear to protect themselves.
Kaladin is in severe pain for most of the run, and as malnourished as he is, struggles not to collapse. When they reach the end of the first chasm without a permanent bridge, Kaladin mentions how glad he'll be to go back. One of the other bridgemen mentions that they've got a long way to go yet, and that arriving is the worst part.
After several more hours of agony which will likely leave Kaladin scarred for life, they arrive at a chasm where the Parshendi are already waiting on the other side. Gaz has the bridgemen switch locations, so those in the back move to the front, and those in the front move to the back. The bridge crews hurriedly drop their bridges into place, all the while taking heavy fire from the Parshendi. Every man on the front row except Kaladin is killed. Kaladin collapses.
He wakes up several hours later when the windspren who's been following him shocks him with some sort of energy (described as being like a slap, but without the force behind it). Kaladin realizes that if he doesn't leave soon, he will be left behind and will starve or die of dehydration. He asks the spren if she has a name, and she replies that she does, sounding surprised. As Kaladin takes the vest and shoes from a dead man, she tells him that her name is Sylphrena, and that she has a nickname: Syl.
Kaladin is told that if he wants to go back, he'll have to help carry the bridge. He does so, though he's exhausted. He thinks to himself that he'd been wrong before in thinking that there was nothing the world could do to him. Bridge Four is the final torment reserved just for him.
===Chapter Seven: Anything Reasonable===
===Chapter Eight: Nearer the Flame===
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