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Approached by a number of constables, who arrived late on the scene, Wax learned that Constable-General [[Claude Aradel]] would like to quietly enlist his assistance in investigating the recent murder of Elendel Governer [[Replar Innate]]’s brother, [[Winsting]], who had been killed among 30 of Elendel’s most notorious criminals. Examining the scene, Wax determined that Winsting was stabbed by someone familiar to the man, citing the location of the killings, the position of the bodies, and the sheer number of victims —details which also dictated that Feruchemically enhanced speed would have been required to perform the grisly feat. Wax steeled himself, knowing he was now on the trail of a [[Steelrunner]].{{book ref|mb5|4}}
Starting his search in the best place to find word of a rogue Feruchemist, Wax visited the [[Terris]] [[Village]]
Blindsided by another momentary glimpse of Bloody Tan on the crowded streets, Wax began to doubt his own senses. Shaking off the distraction, Wax joined Wayne in discovering Idashwy’s corpse, laying in her kitchen with a large hole bored through her chest.
Having spent great amounts of time studying a book gifted to him by [[Ironeyes]] himself{{book ref|mb4|epilogue}}, Wax recognized the likelihood of Idashwy having been the victim of the creation of a Hemalurgic spike. Guessing that the killer used the spike to steal her Feruchemical speed, Wax was surprised to find a note written to himself hidden in the victim’s pocket. On the note were the last words Bloody Tan said to him, back in the Roughs:
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|Someone else moves us, lawman.”
|Bloody Tan{{book ref|mb5|6}}
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Needing time to think, Wax rode alone in his carriage, driven by [[Hoid]]. Casually musing upon whether his [[Pathian]] earring may have once been a Hermalurgic spike, Wax placed it into his ear. Immediately, Harmony spoke to Wax directly, careful to reassure him that he had not gone insane. Harmony admitted that the earring was a spike, which was the reason they were able to converse. Additionally, Harmony explained that Wax’s earlier sightings of Bloody Tan were real and not imagined, though the murderer Wax had been chasing all this time was not a man, but actually a [[Faceless Immortal]] using Tan’s bones, named [[Bleeder]].{{book ref|mb5|7}}
While attending Lady ZoBell’s party with Steris, Wax met the Faceless Immortal, [[MeLaan]], sent to help in the hunt for Bleeder by Harmony himself. In between chats with various nobility of the city, Wax began to hear a new voice in his head, mocking him and the people of Elendel. Wax soon realized he was hearing the voice of Bleeder, who had somehow learned to use the same Hermalurgic connection to him that Harmony had.{{book ref|mb5|9}}. Using their connection to discover Bleeder’s location at the party, Wax attempted to apprehend her, giving chase out a window and through the Mists of the city outside.{{book ref|mb5|10}}
His pursuit of Bleeder waylaid by a dozen armed men, Wax was convinced that she must be aligned with the Set. Wax listened closely as Bleeder spoke in his mind of her plans to kill the governor and free the city from Harmony’s influence, but first she claimed she would need to murder Wax’s father. Guessing that she must have been threatening Lord Harms’ life, Wax raced
Tracking Bleeder’s path, Wax located the carriage she had used to escape the scene of the killing. Inside, Wax found traces of [[Perchwither]], a substance only found in the [[Kandra Homeland|Homeland of the Faceless Immortals]].{{book ref|mb5|15}} Puzzled, Wax followed her trail back to the Governor’s mansion. Once close enough to her location, Bleeder’s voice immediately returned to his mind, keen to convince Wax that
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Seeking more information on Bleeder, Wax entered the museum in the [[Field of Rebirth]]. Locating the secret path through the historical [[Atium]] mines, Wax entered the cavern leading to the Homeland, and encountered [[TenSoon]], legendary wolfhound of the [[Ascendant Warrior]]. TenSoon told Wax much of Bleeder’s history and showed him a torn up and desecrated copy of the [[Words of Founding]], the product of one of her last acts before leaving the Homeland and evidence of her descent into madness.{{book ref|mb5|20}}
Wax and TenSoon found themselves chased from the Homeland by the sudden appearance of [[Hemalurgic chimera|Hemalurgic chimeras]], deformed humans under Bleeder’s
Steel-pushing through the night after Bleeder, Wax easily found her, changing bodies
Wax levelled Vindication and shot her in the head with the bullet from the gun’s special chamber. The bullet had been made to his request by Ranette, molded from his Pathian earring. It was designed to give Bleeder a second spike,
Bleeder screamed that she would not be controlled again. As she died in
Too late, Wax realized that the woman he had shot was not just Bleeder, an insane murderer and Faceless Immortal that looked like Lessie; she ''was'' Lessie.{{book ref|mb5|26}}
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