Difference between revisions of "Summary:The Bands of Mourning"

Wax and [[Wayne]] go on a raid with the constabulary. The[[Migs]] and his gang isare no match for their combined powers. Wax heads off to his wedding with [[LessieSteris]].

Wax shoots several bandits, then deactivates and Pushes overboard the "device," which was really just a case of dynamite. The giant Coinshot reappears, and Wax manages to attach Ranette's ball and cord device to him, yanking him off the train. There are still several more bandits, and Wax is unarmed. Partway through taking turns jumping off into the river, they suddenly stop moving; Marasi has them trapped in a speedslowness bubble.

The [[Aunt Gin|owner]] of the [[New Seran#Copper Gate|hotel]] introduces the group to their suite. She becomes quite unnerved at their strange behavior (Wax ripping out windows, MeLaan talking about breast size, etc.) and Steris's list of calamities that may befall the hotel while they're there. (Steris insists that the staff be prepared.) Marasi and Wayne prepare to search graveyards for the missing spike, while the others prepare to go to the [[Kelesina Shores' party|party]].

[[Templeton Fig]] admires his stuffed animal collection as he waits on word from the graveyard. The flames from his fire in the fireplace stop moving. The door of the room opens and the body of Dechamp is deposited onto the floor. FigTempleton is terrified. "to see Death" tapstap on his window and demandsdemand the return of his spike. FigTempleton says that "they" demanded he recover the spike and send it to [[Dulsing]]. The fire moves again, and the constables come.

Wayne takes off his disguise and asks Marasi how [[Marsh|"Death"]] really sounds, as she has spoken with him. They discuss their findings, puzzled as to why the spike was sent to such a small, remote village as Dulsing.

Marasi is enjoying the adventure of a stagecoach ride in uncivilized land. She has moved on from Wax, but still admires him. Wax tells her more about the beginning of his time in the Roughs. They discuss whether the Bands of Mourning are real. Wax goes back to sleep, so Marasi finishes her report and fiddles with the cube. She finds a tiny switch and flips it, then burns cadmium to see if anything would happen. This causes the stagecoach to lurch because it isn't massive enough for the speedslowness bubble to follow Marasi. She reports that the cube vibrated while she was burning. They decide to stop and experiment with the cube.

They ride in, not encountering any patrols because the guarded area is so large. They come upon a large, nondescript building, guarded by soldiers and still under construction. Wayne tries to figure out a way in, and Steris agrees to stay behind with the horses. Wax and Wayne decide to use the "Spoiled Tomato" plan, which consistedconsists of Wax Pushing Wayne to the building.

Wayne lands as quietly as possible (in rocks) and heals before he dies from the fall. He eludes some guards and approaches the building. He makes another guard "trip" over a wire, cutting off some floodlights and causing a commotion. Wax, Marasi, and MeLaan join him in the darkness and confusion. They sneak into the building and see a large [[Brunstell|ship]], damaged. They split up: Marasi and MeLaan are to search for the spike, Wax and Wayne for Mr. Suit.

Telsin is thirsty for revenge against her captors. Wax grabs her and Pushes to the top of the ship, where he leaves her. Then he meets back up with Wayne. There's a lot of shooting going on, and Wayne throws up a speed bubble so they can plan. They see MeLaan peeking out a door and Telsin climbing down the ship. Wax sends Wayne for Telsin while he gets the other two. Wayne gets caught by gunfire, and they keep shooting him as he tries to heal. Wax goes on an Allomantic frenzy, getting hit by an aluminum bullet, but manages to rescue him. They are safe in the ship for now, but they are besieged by the heavy gunfire outside. Three Allomancers in fancy suits show up, and Wax dispatches one of them with the Thug-killer shotgun. Wax finds more enemies coming up behind him, but luckily Marasi throws up a speedslowness bubble on one guy using the cube, allowing Wax to avoid getting shot. He steps to the side, waits for the bubble to drop, then shoots him.

Marasi fights the pain that has now blossomed from her gunshot wound. Wax and Wayne make a desperate plan to escape the building, but in the meantime, Marasi is going off with the masked man. He pulls on something behind a panel in the wall and a rope ladder falls. They all get up the ladder into another compartment with bolted down chairs. The masked man puts on a different medallion and can suddenly speak their language. He gives each of them a medallion to strap on. It consists of an [[iron]] metalmind that anyone can fill. Then he instructs Wax to grip some straps and Push. The room is actually a separate [[Wilg|boat]], and Wax's Push lifts it into the sky.

Marasi contemplates death, and she's embarrassed by her near nudity as Wax stops by to check on her. MeLaan heals the wound, ingesting and replicating Marasi's flesh so the patch will take. Wax and Marasi discuss what to do next. They have retrieved the spike and Telsin, but the real goal of the trip was to stop Suit. Marasi shows a map of the "second site" from the book she lifted from Irich's desk. Wax heard his uncle say he was headed there when he was eavesdropping at the party. He asks Marasi to talk to Allik and see what he knows. Allik recognizes the location (which he calls the "[[Sovereign's temple"]]), and they suspect that Suit took Allik's crewmates along to help find it. Allik wants to go find them. Wax questions him about this Sovereign. He came to them about ten years after the Ice Death (which occurred at the same time as Harmony's [[Catacendre|Ascension]]) and taught them how to make the medallions. Marasi is convinced the Sovereign was the Lord Ruler even though the timeline doesn't fit; she thinks the records must be flawed. Wax and Allik discuss how the medallions work. They all have [[Nicrosilnicrosil]] so that the wearer can be Invested and therefore use the other metal. Medallions with four or more metals don't work, and strapping on multiple medallions doesn't work either. Allik's people have some other enemy he refers to as "Deniers of Masks." Wax decides to head for the temple.

Steris is quite surprised to see her sister glowing and flinging people about. Allik is so cold, he has stopped shivering. Fortunately, sheSteris has made herself useful by hiding an extra warming medallion in her notebook. She gives it to Allik.

The explosion awakens Wax, who is still honeymooning with Steris in the penthouse. Drewton has carefully laid out all of Wax's possessions recovered from the hotel in New Seran, and Wax sees the strange coin given to him by the beggar. He picks up the coin and notices that it is composed of twonicrosil metalsand copper, onemaking beingit a [[Copper|coppercoppermind]]. He taps it and sees through the eyes -- one spiked and one not -- of someone strolling into a village. The villagers are dying from the cold., and Theythey have even burned their masks. The [[Kelsier|traveler]] goes to the elders, and one woman lifts her cloth mask. He reaches out to her and whispers one word: "Survive." Wax sees a network of scars on the traveler's arm.