digitalbusker quoted The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson (Mistborn, #2)
The impossible has been accomplished. The Lord Ruler -- the man who claimed to be …
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Ham shrugged. "Who knows? Maybe Kell is out there somewhere, watching over us." /No,/ Breeze thought. /If he were, we wouldn't have ended up here--waiting to die, locked in a city we were supposed to save./
— The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson (Mistborn, #2) (78%)
To be fair, at this point he's stuck in a well, actually.