Prologue
Kaladin was stunned. Finally, finally, they had been reassigned to the Shattered Plains. No more fighting other Alethi for no reward, now they could finally earn honour and glory fighting Parshendi. Coreb was also coming with them, with his shards. The story of him defeating the Shardbearer had spread, and many talked about how he had given up the shards, the story becoming more and more exaggerated every time, to the point where he had heard that he had earned 20 shards and formed a squad of shardbearers; and the less said about the . However, Kaladin was also sad; he had failed to protect Tie - no, Cenn, not Tien, and most of his squad was dead, killed by the shard that Coreb now carried, as well as Amaram possibly dying, despite the surgeons working on him. The real reason that he hadn't taken the shard was that he couldn't, he couldn't bear it, it had killed his squad and he couldn't do anything. For all his surgeon training he could not fix a shardblade wound. He just couldn't it was impossible. But he would do better, he would protect his squad and his next squad. They wouldn't die like Tien, not again. Never again.
Sadeas was... interested and bewildered by the latest report from Alethkar, which states that a darkened spearman had killed an unknown shardbearers, and he had ... given the shards away, bemusing him completely. They were being reassigned soon. He would have to talk to them then.
Coreb was exulting in his newfound status. He was now 4th dahn and was heading to the Shattered Plains with the rest of the squad. He constantly trained with his shards, seperate from his squad, learning how to use them so that he would be of use, while Kaladin sometimes helped him learn his weaknesses against a normal man... Though to what extent Kaladin was normal was debatable. He was Stormblessed, truly, even though the squad was decimated. He had to do something to repay Kaladin, anything - maybe he could make him an honorary Lighteyes? He would definitely keep him by his side all the time. Coreb was also happy about his family, he could finally see them, for the first time in six years, since he was 23. They would be coming to the Sadeas warcamp, and he would see them there.
A/N: I was aggravated at how there seemed to be very few long and truly different fanfics in the Stormlight Archive, so I decided, however ineptly and incompetently, to write my own. Next time we'll see them in Sadeas' warcamp, and hopefully we'll also see Dalinar, Adolin and Bridge 4 (they are not going to be left out, and hopefully what I'll do with them will be entertaining!)