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Demoux survives his sickness.
Vin reads a passage in Alendi's logbook about the Deepness, and how it is sentient. She puzzles on how to fight Ruin, on her own, since Ruin can't read thoughts, ascertaining the facts before deciding on a strategy. She realizes from when she held the power and touched Ruin that it is a powerful but not omnipotent force that is subject to consequences and laws of nature, and that she has to figure out what can constrain it.
Elend thinks he is becoming ruthless like the Lord Ruler, because of his exposing his soldiers to the mists, but Vin disagrees. Elend and Vin speak of how nobles used to beat their children to try to awaken their allomantic potential, though this has been outlawed by Elend for humane purposes, a decision that Elend now second-guesses.
Noorden presents his reports on mist sickness casualties. Vin questions him on the methodology he uses, and prompts him to recalculate using the number of soldiers that were not previously exposed to the mists as opposed to the total number of soldiers, and Noorden calculates an exact sixteen percent sickness rate. Elend passes this off as a coincidence, but it exactly matches a separate sample ratio from a previous outbreak, and almost exactly matches a third sample to a fraction of a percentage. A fourth smaller sample also matches the ratio with no margin of error. Elend thinks there is enough of a pattern to look for further correlation.
== Chapter 22 ==
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