Friday 9/2/05:
The convention officially began at 1 PM on Friday. I ran the Opening Ceremonies, which was a recap of the last five years and some introductions. Turn-out was better than I expected, since Robert Jordan had his first signing at the same time. It was followed by our New Spring discussion group.
Our big event for the day was a reading from Knife of Dreams by Robert Jordan. I had been told that it would be a reading from “Embers Falling on Dry Grass”, the prologue that has been available for a few months in the New Spring paperback. However, Jordan surprised us by reading a section from somewhere in the middle of the book, which was a Mat POV. There are spoiler descriptions of the scene already posted on different sites, so I won’t say more than that. Afterwards, he took questions from the audience.
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