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===Wax and Steris' Wedding===
Wax and Steris have their wedding six months after Wax defeated Bleeder{{book ref|mb6|3}}. Just before the wedding Wax is visited by the Kandra (presumably VenDell) who asks Wax for his help but is met with outright rejection. During the wedding ceremony, a water tower near the church has a structural failure and collapses, spilling water into the church that they were having the wedding, thus postponing the wedding.{{book ref|mb6|1}} Later the same day Wax is joined by VenDell, Melaan, Wayne, and Marasi, Vendell shows them a few images using an evanoscope and tries to inform them about the nature of investiture, identity, and the myths surrounding the
In the ensuing fight, Wax works his way up to the courier cars at the front of the train, taking out most of the robbers on the train. Eventually, Wax reaches the courier cars and encounters a group of robbers that have thrown bottles of a noxious gas into the courier cars and have stolen the money in the cars. Wax heads into the courier car upon hearing that the robbers have a metalborn with them and then realizes that his metal reserves have vanished. He then fights a brute first in the car then on the roof of the train. Steris steps up on to the roof of the train and tries to shoot the brute with a shotgun but the kickback knocks her back off of the train and Wax jumps off to save her.{{book ref|mb6|7}} After saving Steris, Wax goes to clean up the remaining thieves and the brute. Wax dispatches the brute by using a sphere device from Ranette, wrapping the cord around the brute's leg and throwing it into some trees, yanking him off the train; the other bandits are frozen in a cadmium bubble until they reached Ironstand station.{{book ref|mb6|8}} At Ironstand station Wax gets his wounds treated and then catches a freight train to New Seran With his group.
Wax rides toward the construction site in a stagecoach and on the way to the site he and Marasi discover how the cube-like device that they recovered on the train operates.{{book ref|mb6|17}} At the construction site, Wax, MeLaan, and Marasi infiltrate the perimeter with the help of Wayne, where he realizes that the construction is a giant boat and decides to infiltrate it to find his sister. Wax proceeds to explore the ship with Wayne and after some time discovers the chamber where his sister is being held. Taking advantage of a distraction created by Wayne, Wax manages to get into the room where Telsin was being held..{{book ref|mb6|18}}.{{book ref|mb6|19}} After rescuing Telsin, Wax, Wayne, and Telsin escape the ship in a smaller ship with the help of a crew member of the ship. Once again Wax decides to go after the Bands of mourning rather than return to Elendel.{{book ref|mb6|21}}
Arriving at the temple where the Bands of Mourning are supposedly being kept before Suit's henchmen, Wax ventures inside alongside the rest of his group. Inside the temple Wax proceeds with caution after seeing the corpses of Hunters that came before him. With the help of MeLaan and Mr. Suit Wax manages to get into the room where the Bands were being kept only to be betrayed by Telsin and Mr. Suit, Wax gets shot 3 times and dropped down a pit.{{book ref|mb6|26}} After another confrontation with Mr. Suit Wax dies {{book ref|mb6|27}}and has a conversation with Harmony where he is eventually offered a choice between freedom and duty, Wax chooses duty and is revived by tapping the power in the Bands of Mourning, using the powers he heals and frees himself and then goes after Mr. Suit and Telsin. {{book ref|mb6|28}} Wax intercepts Suit as he tries to escape, after a brief conversation they fight with Wax coming out as the winner.{{book ref|mb6|29}} {{book ref|mb6|30}}Wax and his group take the [[Southern Scadrian|southerner's]]'s ship back to Elendel where he hands over the Band of Mourning to Kandra for safe keeping. Wax then asks Steris to marry him. {{book ref|mb6|31}} While on his honeymoon with Steris, Wax is woken up by an explosion and sees the coin that was given to him at the party, recognizing the structure of the coin Wax taps the investiture in the coin and then taps the coppermind, showing him a memory.{{book ref|mb6|epilogue}}
=== Notable Cases ===
* [[Pars the Deadman]]
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