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Dalinar never slept that night, the Thrill never leaving him. He orders all people leaving the city shot dead (including messengers bearing white flags of peace). Sadeas doubts that Dalinar can really go through with this atrocity, they both agree Gavilar could not. Dalinar admits that he once wanted to rule but realized that the man needed for this atrocity, and the man to rule, could not be the same person. They order not to send word to him in order to give plausible deniability.
They attack at night and secure a foothold in the wall. Dalinar orders the city set ablaze the already flammable city covered in oil. He leads Kadash to a saferoom on the outside of the city where he assumes Tanlan had been hiding and sets it ablaze with barrels of oil. Walking away from the screaming within, he spots Tanlan trying to reach the palace instead. He pleads to Dalinar to let him save his family but Dalinar (still bothered by the screams earlier in the saferoom) admits he is an animal and he will not be so foolish as to allow survivors again. As the palace collapses, Tanlan's family dead, Dalinar decides it is enough and to let people flee. But it is too late, the city is engulfed, and there will be no survivors.
As he moves to execute Tanlan he comments that at least Tanlan didn't hide in that hole but he had set afire the people who were there. Tanlan laughs. The messengers that Dalinar killed at the start of the day were to tell him they had imprisoned his wife. Dalinar strangles him to death in a fury, Kadash begins vomitting at the realization of what they did, and Dalinar goes limp.
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