Seth turns 43, Aradia has the Christmas tree up already, and the wind of the opening paragraph gets hit with a bubble of evil as it heads towards Rand at peak burnout. We see Sanderson laying out his priorities for the book and his writing in the narrative choices in the chapter, and get adjusted to seeing the characters through his eyes. 

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