Difference between revisions of "Summary:Edgedancer"

* [[Nale]] (mentioned only)

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Lift climbs out of the slots to observe some farmers who are planting things out of season because of the unusual Weeping. Wyndle asks what her plan is, and all she has come up with is to sneak in and have Wyndle read everything. He convinces her that that's impossible, so she goes off to steal some clothes instead.

 

* [[Ishar]] (mentioned only)

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Lift puts on some Azish robes and walks into the Indicium. She tells a scribe that she is from the Azir palace, but she doesn't believe her. She steps out for a moment and Lift overhears that the guard (Hauka) is coming. She gets Wyndle to help her write a note via [[spanreed]] to Azir so they can vouch for her. Hauka arrives with several guards, and they almost have her captured when a reply comes. They look at her incredulously and ask what she wants them to do.

 

* [[Nale]] (mentioned only)

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Three hours later, scribes are still searching for "strange stuff" that has happened in the city. The liaison scribe, named [[Ghenna]], talks about reports from around the world about the Everstorm. Hauka comes back and reports that the Stump is running a money laundering scheme, trading dun spheres for infused ones of lesser value. The scribes continue their search, but they have found too many strange things to investigate. Lift can't decide what to do. A guard bursts into the room; an emergency has been declared on account of the approaching storm. The scribes scatter and Lift wanders off. Wyndle suggests that the female minion was probably using scribes to investigate too. Lift runs back to follow this lead.

 

== Chapter 15 ==

Ghenna tells Lift that a woman had indeed hired some scribes for an investigation two weeks back in room 232. She heads off to find the room and hears the two minions, trailed by Szeth, talking quietly to [[Nightblood]]. They go into the room, and Wyndle volunteers to sneak in and listen. Lift waits impatiently. After some tense moments, Wyndle "runs" out of the room, and they hide while the apprentices leave. Szeth sees her and draws his sword a bit. Lift feels nauseated. Then he just turns and leaves. Wyndle reports that they are headed to the suspected Radiant to perform an execution. They start to follow.

 

== Chapter 16 ==

Lift follows them out of the building. The two apprentices fly off, but Szeth chooses to stay behind. He knows Lift is hiding nearby and starts to talk with her. They are hunting a suspected [[Order of Lightweavers|Lightweaver]]. Szeth reiterates that Nale is wrong about the Voidbringers and probably crazy too. Lift is unable to follow the flying apprentices, so she asks Szeth where they are headed. It's clear from his description that the target is the crazy philosopher at the amphitheater. Szeth warns her that she doesn't stand a chance against them, but she must follow.

 

== Chapter 17 ==

Lift engages her awesomeness and tries to skid to the orphanage, but she keeps falling and crashing into things. She runs instead, running out of fuel before she arrives. She hears a scream from the alleyway, and Stump thinks it's her trying to trick her way in. She drags Lift inside. Mik recognizes her; he appears completely healed. Lift is confused because she doesn't remember healing him. Stump starts handing out pancakes, and Lift gets two, her last free meal. When Stump isn't looking, Lift steps back outside.

 

== Chapter 18 ==

Lift walks slowly into the dark alley and finally stumbles into a body. A flash of lightening reveals that it belongs to the woman apprentice. She jumps back in shock and bumps into the other minion's body. The old man is there and starts talking philosophy again. Lift realizes that he is actually made up of many interlocking cremlings. He assures her that he's on her side and is not the one Darkness is looking for. Lift realizes that Stump is the one healing the children and runs back to the orphanage.

 

== Chapter 19 ==

The storm is starting to rage in earnest now as Lift approaches the orphanage. The door is ajar, having been cut clean through by a Shardblade. She enters and hears heavy footsteps upstairs. She yells to Darkness and leads him on a merry chase through the house, hoping to drain his supply of Stormlight. She's eventually cornered and pinned by a knife through her clothing. Just as Darkness is about to deliver a killing stroke with his Shardblade, Stump appears and whacks him with a plank of wood. He easily defeats her and stabs her with a conventional knife, baiting Lift to try to heal her. Instead she zips up to the roof and emerges into the terrible storm. Darkness follows and swings, but Wyndle transforms into a rod, Lift finally speaking aloud the words she had uttered in her heart: "I will listen to those who have been ignored." She points out the evicted Parshmen out on the plain with glowing red eyes and convinces Darkness that he's failed. He breaks down crying, and Lift hugs him. He flies off; she rushes back down to heal Stump.

 

== Chapter 20 ==

Stump gives Lift a heap of pancakes, pretending for her sake that they weren't meant for her. Mik's mother came back for her son even though she couldn't have known he was healed. Stump starts to gripe about the scheming mother and then realizes that she was the one who healed him. Lift helps her identify her spren and realize that she is also a Radiant. Ghenna arrives with the spanreed to Azir so Lift can check in with Gawx. Lift finishes her pancakes and makes an excuse to go to the bathroom, but she's really leaving. She uses up all of her Stormlight healing the refugees at the entrance to the city as she starts her journey back to Azir. She feels like she will be needed there.