Difference between revisions of "Summary:Shadows of Self"

[[Waxillium]] gets off his horse, gettingand tells the teenage [[Wayne|kid]] who'd been following him to stay with the horses,. andHe enters a grungy saloon. Heand asks the barkeep about '[[Granite Joe'|"Granite Joe"]], the outlaw he has been tracking. The barkeep tells him that if he'll pay, he might know someone who knows Granite Joe. Once Wax says he will pay, the barkeep leads him to a small room near the stairs, telling him to wait. While waiting, a [[Lessie|woman]] carefully breaks in carefully through the window, butan isunlit surprisedcigar toin seeher mouth. When she realizes that someone else is in the room with her, she swears and points her rifle at Wax. After a standoff, they work out they are both after the same quarry, and resolve to work together and split the reward. When Wax tells her that he asked the barkeep about Joe, she's incredulous, telling him everyone in the saloon belongs to Joe. They realize it is a trap, but when they try andto escape back through the window, they are stopped by a sharpshooter. They peek out the door and see that the thugs in the saloon are obviously reluctant to face Wax. They decide to make for the next floor and escape through a window on the other side of the building. They makerun itup the stairs, Wax firing and findmissing everything but the piano, and make it up to the second floor. Wax remembers seeing her before as a windowdancing girl. Wax whistles a couple of times for his horse so they can jump into the saddle and ride off, but eventuallyhe doesn't show up. Eventually the kid walks around,up and tells him that Destroyer (the horse) is juststill drinking still. As they consider justjumping jumpinganyway, Wax trusting in his [[steel|coinshot]] abilities to land safely, he notices thea sunmoving glintblue offline something,from andacross immediatelythe street pullsand the womansun (whoglinting off something, so he's foundimmediately outpulls ishimself calledand Lessie) to the ground as a shot is fired. The sharpshooter had shifted around. Wax realizes that Granite Joe is likely in the basement, and so he grabs Lessie while rolling to the ground, and then uses his [[Feruchemy|feruchemical]] ability to tap and store weight along with his [[Allomancy|allomantic]] ability to pushPush on metal to crash down through the floor to the basement. The pair crash down onto a dining table, interrupting Granite Joe's meal. AfterGranite Joe has two bodyguards -- armed with non-metallic weapons -- so Wax is caught in a shortstandoff. verbalHe exchangetalks to Wax, astalling quickerfor gunfightreinforcements. Joe stands up and draws, and Wax Pushes himself to the side, just avoiding a crossbow ensuesbolt. BothHe ofshoots Granitethe Joefemale guard and Pushes on the male guard's guardsgun, areruining dropped,his thoughshot. WaxHis losesPush also sends his weaponown ingun into the processface of the bodyguard, dropping him. He starts moving to attack the manJoe when he hears a weapon click behind him,. andHe stops toand seesees Lessie pointing a crossbow at him. He realizes that Lessie had been bought out by Joe too, and that the whole situation had been a set up. ButWax thendesperately Lessietells surprisesher boththat menhe bylikes shootingher Granitelegs, and she sighs and shoots Joe in the neck. As reinforcements scramble down to the basement, Wax strikes a dramatic pose next to the body of Granite Joe. The sight intimidates the thugs who had just come down, who then immediately return the way they came. Wax usesand hisLessie abilitiesfirt tofor takea thembit, then he holds onto her and Pushes themselves back up throughto theWayne holeand theyhis hadwaiting madehorse.