![]() ![]() Wax jumps out of the car and propels himself onto the roof of Marasi's car before Pushing off and chasing the man. They quickly find Marks, who is bounding through the streets using Steelpushes. After protesting that a carriage with horses would be better, he gets in and they drive off, Marasi and Wayne filling Wax in on the details. With some hurried apologies and an awkward farewell, he races out, but is surprised by the sight of a motorcar, with Marasi at the wheel. Their discussion is interrupted by Wayne bursting in to tell Wax that the Marksman has made his move. He tells her to invite the leaders among the seamstresses and forgeworkers of his house and the constable-general of each of the city octants. Wax suggests that she invite members of his family, but they want him dead too. Steris and Wax discuss wedding invitations, with Steris trying to work out which of Wax's enemies to invite so that she can properly plan for the wedding to be interrupted. As Winsting considers what to do, someone grabs his hair and slits his throat. He tells them that everyone upstairs is dead. Eventually Flog returns, and Winsting lets him in. Winsting locks the door from the inside after he leaves. No one is certain who started the gunfight, but Flog decides to go back up to the room to investigate. Flog drags him out and takes him to his saferoom. He continues to mingle for the next hour, but then a gunshot rings out, with several more quickly following from different parts of the room. After the conversation, Winsting identifies the woman as a spy-possibly from the constabulary-to his bodyguard Flog and orders her watched. He is approached first by a smuggler named Dowser Maline, who is accompanied by a tall, slender woman with short golden hair. Winsting is quite disappointed that Edwarn Ladrian is not there. After an introductory speech, he begins to mingle. The ostensible item for sale is his latest painting. Winsting Innate prepares to auction off his senate vote to various crime lords and nobles in Elendel. Wax Pushes himself and Lessie back up to Wayne and his waiting horse. The sight intimidates the thugs who have just come down, who then immediately return the way they had come. As reinforcements scramble down to the basement, Wax strikes a dramatic pose next to the body of Granite Joe. Wax desperately tells her that he likes her legs, and she sighs and shoots Joe in the neck. Joe finally makes a move, and Wax defeats the bodyguards only to find that Lessie has drawn her weapon on him. The outlaw's bodyguards have non-metallic weapons, so Wax is trapped in a stand-off while Granite Joe stalls for reinforcements. The pair crash down onto a dining table, interrupting Granite Joe's meal. Realizing that Granite Joe is likely in the basement, he grabs Lessie and taps into his feruchemical ability to crash down through the floor to the basement. After a conversation with Wayne, Wax notices a moving blue line from across the street and the sun glinting off something. ![]() Wax remembers seeing Lessie before as a dancing girl, and they banter as he whistles for his horse. Deciding to make for the next floor and find a window on the opposite side of the building instead, they run up the stairs while Wax covers them, firing and missing everything but the piano. They try to sneak out the window, but a sharpshooter stops them. Lessie is incredulous to hear that Wax had asked the barkeep about Joe, telling him that everyone in the building is on the outlaw's payroll. ![]() ![]() After a standoff, they work out that they are both after the same quarry and resolve to work together and split the reward. After a time of waiting alone, Wax is astonished as Lessie breaks into the room via the window. The man extracts a bribe from Wax, after which he leads him to a small room near the stairs and tells him to wait. Wayne stays with the horses while Wax enters and asks the barkeeper where to find the outlaw Granite Joe. Waxillium and Wayne ride up to a saloon in Weathering. ![]()
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