"What is it you think I am?" Shallan whispered, meeting the older woman's eyes, finally asking the question that she hadn't dared.
"Right now, you are but a promise," Jasnah said. "A chrysalis with the potential for grandeur inside. When once humans and spren bonded, the results were women who danced in the skies and men who could destroy the stones with a touch."
This is what I would have been, Shallan thought, if I had not been raised in a household of fear. So this is what I will be today.
It wasn't a lie. It was a different truth.
"You needn't fear me. I'm terribly ineffective at hurting people. I blame my upbringing."
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"At least," she said, reaching her hand over his shoulder and past his head, "take this."
"Take what?"
"This," Shallan said.
Then she summoned a Shardblade.
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"You sent him to the sky to die, assassin," Kaladin said, Stormlight puffing from his lips, "but the sky and winds are mine. I claim them, as I now claim your life."
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