The Alloy of Law: Prologue - Chapter 6

This excerpt from Brandon Sanderson's fourth Mistborn novel, The Alloy of Law, contains the Prologue through Chapter Six. The Alloy of Law will be available on November 8, 2011. Three hundred years after the events of the Mistborn trilogy, Scadrial is now on the verge of modernity, with railroads, electric lighting, and the first steel-framed skyscrapers racing for the clouds. Yet even as science and technology are reaching new heights, the old magics of Allomancy and Feruchemy continue to play