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Later, during one of their chasm duty sessions, Kaladin secretly began training Bridge Four, which had now dwindled to twenty-four members, as spearman. To assist with the training, Kaladin tricked Teft into revealing that he had formerly been a sergeant and appointed him to oversee the men. To maintain their cover of working in the chaos, he assigned Lopen, Rock, [[Dabbid]], and Shen to do actual salvage work with Syl’s assistance. Kaladin was impressed at the men’s progress after only a few hours and remarked that thanks to their adverse conditions, they are ironically the most motivated and fit recruits he had ever seen.{{book ref|sa1|49}}
==== Discovery of Surgebinding powers ====
In one of the next bridge runs, [[Dunny]] died. Frustrated, Kaladin began rescuing members of other bridge crews, commanding his men to carry them back to the barracks, despite having barely enough resources for his own men. His actions cause Teft’s suspicions about Kaladin being a Knight Radiant to grow stronger.{{book ref|twok|53}}
One week later on chasm duty, Bridge Four found slightly more than [[spheres|emerald broam]]'s worth of money, including an actual emerald broad. Kaladin realized that with this money, they could not only feed the wounded bridgemen, but they also could advance their escape plan. Kaladin decided to turn over the emerald broad—an amount of money that no bridgeman could ever safely spend—but kept the rest. Rock, though an avowed pacifist, took up a bow and attached the pouch to the underside of one of the permanent bridges using an arrow.{{book ref|twok|55}}
Lopen covertly retrieved the money during one of the next bridge runs and turned the money over to Kaladin. During the run, Teft’s suspicions about Kaladin came to a head and he tricked Kaladin into unconsciously using his powers. Kaladin, realizing that his powers were of the Knights Radiant, was scared and wanted to be rid of them. He confronted Syl, and during the argument, Syl grew angry and ran away.{{book ref|twok|57}}
Later that evening, Kaladin came across [[Hoid]], who told him the story of [[Derethil]] and the ''[[Wandersail]],” a story that Kaladin interpreted as one about taking responsibility. Before Hoid left, he gave Kaladin a [[Trailman's flute]] and told him to look after his apprentice Sigzil, leaving Kaladin to tell Sigzil that he is now a full [[Worldsinger]]. Syl, who was present for the story, returned to Kaladin and explained what she remembered and knew about his powers. Syl offered to cut off their bond, which would leave them both crippled, but Kaladin finally decided to take on the responsibility that Surgebinding represented and to use the power to help others.{{book ref|twok|57}}
Kaladin spent a week with Teft unsuccessfully trying to learn how to use his Surgebinding powers while Bridge Four continued to train to become spearmen. While trying to learn Surgebinding, Teft told Kaladin what he knew of the Knights Radiant, teaching him the First Ideal of the [[Immortal Words]].{{book ref|twok|59}}
{{quote| Life before death, strength before weakness, journey before destination| First Ideal of the Knights Radiant}}
Given Bridge Four’s excellent performance thanks to their training, Hashal informed Kaladin that Bridge Four would go on every bridge run, without the normal break between runs, a further reprisal for the side carry incident. Responding to the increased danger this change brought, Kaladin came up with a plan to use the skins of dead Parshendi found in the chasms as armor. In order to bring the armor out of the chasms, he successfully managed to access his powers to run up a wall and attach the armor to the underside of the permanent bridge they originally used to hide the spheres.{{book ref|twok|59}}
During the next bridge run, Kaladin wore the carapace armor, drawing the attention of the Parshendi. The desecration of a Parshendi corpse enraged the Parshendi warriors who focused all their attention on Kaladin, ignoring everyone else on the battefield. Kaladin’s Surgebinding, which had slowly grown, protected him from any harm, his plan a resounding success. While Bridge Four was resting, a group of Parshendi soldiers attempt to ambush Bridge Four, but [[Dalinar Kholin]] came to their rescue and saluted them as he left.{{book ref|twok|62}}
Since the armor was so effective, Kaladin ordered [[Leyten]] to make a set of armor for every man in Bridge Four, not just those running in front. Meanwhile, the spearmen’s training advanced rapidly, with Moash and Skar emerging as the most skilled.{{book ref|twok|63}}
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