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Kaladin spends the next eight months under at least six different slavemasters, suffering from constant beatings and squalid conditions. Initially, Kaladin is still defiant, making ten escape attempts; although several of them are successful, he always ends up re-captured. In his tenth escape attempt, he leads a group of twenty armed slaves, including a man named [[Goshel]]. However, they all die, leading Kaladin to believe that he has failed them. By the eighth month, Kaladin falls into despair and has stopped making any escape attempts.{{book ref|sa1|2}}{{book ref|sa1|43}}
Though he should have been killed for his tenth escape attempt, Kaladin's master finds him "intriguing," and brands his forehead with the ''shash'' [[glyph]], meaning dangerous, and sells him. Eventually Kaladin is bought by [[Tvlakv]]. By now, Kaladin is at his lowest point; he even finds and secretes away some poisonous [[blackbane]] leaves
It is during this time that Kaladin first notices [[Syl]]. Although Kaladin notices that Syl has been following him for several months, he believes it is nothing more than the average, though mischievous [[windspren]]. At this point, Syl acts much like a normal windspren, though Kaladin notes some oddities about her, such as the exceptionally long period of time that she has been following him. Just before Kaladin is sold to Sadeas, Syl begins talking to him and calls him by name, an unprecedented occurrence; although spren can mimic voices, Kaladin doesn't believe them to have intelligence or memory. Kaladin thinks he is insane at first, but eventually starts to converse with Syl.{{book ref|sa1|2}}{{book ref|sa1|4}}
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