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(Condensing Chapter 6 Summary)
 
===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 withWhen Kaladin, and he tries to convince her to let him fight in the army., Tvlakv steps in and tells her that sheKaladin is a deserter, contradicting Kaladin's claim that he is a murderer, and ruining any hope he haddashing ofhis fightinghopes.
 
The woman decides that Kaladin and his companions are to be made members of the bridge crews. When Kaladin is introduced toand his new immediate superior officersuperiour, [[Gaz]], hetake immediatelyan dislikesinstant him.dislike Theto feelingeach is mutualother, and whenas thea [[bridgemen]] are called upon almost immediately afterresult, Kaladin's arrivalis forplaced a bridge run, he gives Kaladinin one of the worst locations on the bridge, nearwhen thethey back,are alsocalled neglectingon toa givebridge himrun, without the vestbenefit andof shoes bridgemenor normallyvest wearfor to protect themselvesprotection.
 
After several hours of agonizing running, they arrive at the final chasm, where the Parshendi are waiting on the other side. They take heavy fire while placing their bridge. Kaladin is the only survivor in the front row.
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.
 
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 soonhurry, he will be left behind and will starve or die of dehydration. He asks theThe 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:or [[Syl]].▼
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.
 
Though he's exhausted, Kaladin is told that if he doesn't help to carry the bridge back, he will be left. He takes a spot on the bridge and begins the long way back to camp.
▲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===
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