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The Pursuer next shows up when the second-last node powering the [[Sibling]]'s shield is found, inside the well in the market. He is waiting for Kaladin, and ambushes him as soon as he shows up. He manifests his first body to announce his presence, and - falsely assuming that Kaladin was using [[Surges#Gravitation|Gravitation]] to move about - is curious how Kaladin recovered his access to it.{{book ref|sa4|70}} Kaladin, who was actually using the modified fabrial glove to quickly traverse the [[Urithiru|Tower]], uses it to shoot away. Lezian immediately drops his first husk and gives pursuit, manifesting his second body to grapple with Kaladin. He is thrown off by the presence of the glove, as it affects the close quarters, grappling focused fighting style he prefers, and soon drops another husk to disengage. This time, instead of immediately and aggressively attacking Kaladin again, he keeps to his red ribbon-like spren form, staying around and distracting him, keeping him away from the node.{{book ref|sa4|70}} Kaladin, however, guns straight for the node, forcing Lezian to materialize his third body to engage with him. Lezian successfully grapples Kaladin into a chokehold (again), who uses a previously hidden scalpel to cut at Lezian's arms repeatedly. This forces him to spend precious voidlight healing those cuts and wounds, consequently making him drop his third body before he loses the voidlight to do so.{{book ref|sa4|70}} As usual, after dropping his third husk, Lezian retreats to resupply. By the time he returns, Kaladin has already engaged with Leshwi in single combat, and he has to respect her right to fight Kaladin over his own.{{book ref|sa4|70}}
After Syl locates the node, and Kaladin disengages with Leshwi to deal with it, Lezian is again free to interfere. He is prepared for this eventuality, of Kaladin having to dive into the well, and smiles as he seals Kaladin inside by putting a wooden lid on top. He then directs people to stand on it to account for Kaladin's potential use of lashings to lift the lid.{{book ref|sa4|70}} While he waits outside for Kaladin to suffocate, Kaladin is able to escape by finding a different way out.
After this event, Lezian is left with more free reign in leading the occupation efforts, as Raboniel is focused more on her research. His troops dominated the Tower, and reports of singer violence against the humans grew.{{book ref|sa4|74}} As rumors of the confrontation in the market spread, the Fused try to counter Kaladin's growing reputation by spinning the narrative, and Venli thinks that Lezian is behind their messaging, as she feels that Raboniel would have taken a subtler approach.{{book ref|sa4|74}} Later, when people start marking themselves with the shash glyph as a sign of defiance against the Fused, and support for Kaladin, Lezian orders his men to beat those that do so. Raboniel, however, revokes this order the next day.{{book ref|sa4|79}} Though Raboniel tries to rein him and his men in, he keeps pushing for more brutality in the Tower. Raboniel's occasional orders to maintain peace in the Tower barely restrain him and his men, and humans tended to avoid the area where they were housed.{{book ref|sa4|83}} He posts several Regals on rotation in the infirmary where Lirin and Hesina have been hiding, and Lirin suspects that this is specifically because Lezian knows they are there, even if he cannot do anything while Leshwi's influence protects them.{{book ref|sa4|79}} Leshwi, on the otherhand, thinks that Lezian is not so subtle, and that this was more Raboniel's hand showing.{{book ref|sa4|83}}
When the final node is found, and Kaladin and company make preparations, Kaladin and [[Teft]] realize that like the last two times, the Pursuer would be waiting for him with a trap ready.{{book ref|sa4|100}} Meanwhile, Raboniel, who has sent the Pursuer to break the node, suspects he is deliberately stalling to lure Kaladin, and sends [[Vyre]] out to do the task.{{book ref|sa4|102}} As Kaladin approaches what he expects to be a trap, he sees the Pursuer waiting for him, and engages.{{book ref|sa4|103}}
====Restoration of the Sibling====
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