Two warnings.
1. If you haven’t read the first two books in Brandon Sanderson‘s Mistborn series, well, why haven’t you? Go out and grab ’em. I recommend them wholeheartedly, and then come back to this post and the link after you’ve read them, that way this won’t contain a bunch of spoilers for you. (You can still read the prologue, but it reveals a major spoiler about one character, plus basically gives away the whole ending of the second book. You are warned.)
2. This prologue is a creepy and graphic scene, so if you don’t enjoy that, avert thine eyes.
Now then…
http://brandonsanderson.com/library/29/Mistborn-3-Prologue
This is a great series, and reading this prologue makes me all the more excited about the last book coming out. As has been mentioned before, Sanderson is also heavily wrapped up in writing the last book of Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time Series, A Memory of Light. I’m thinking this guy has gotten himself cloned a few times for the amount of work he gets done.
I see that smile.