In fact there were none of these things, and so the silence remained. If there’d been music… but no of course there was no music.

If Newarre had been large enough to warrant watchmen, they would have trudged and grumbled the silence away like an unwelcome stranger. The slow dewy hush of folk walking through the grass would have brushed the silence off the front steps of houses with the indifferent briskness of an old birch broom. There would be the crackle of kindling, the gentle murmur of water simmering for porridge or tea. If the horizon had shown the slightest kiss of blue, the town would be stirring. The most obvious part was a vast echoing quiet made by things that were lacking. The Waystone Inn lay in silence and it was a silence of three parts. It was still night in the middle of Newarre. Anyway, here’s the full transcript of the prologue: It turns out Rothfuss is a pretty great narrator. The Doors of Stone prologue, “A Silence of Three Parts”

The stream where Rothfuss read the prologue had a staggering 10,000 concurrent live viewers. Just like the other prologue, it flows like poetry. I particularly found it interesting how it seems to focus more on the town of Newarre rather than Kvothe himself. Many of the phrases remain the same, with new creative descriptions and metaphors. It shares the same title, “A Silence of Three Parts,” and once again finds Kote at the Waystone Inn preparing to tell his tale. The prologue itself is similar to the ones from first two books, The Name of the Wind and The Wise Man’s Fear. A meager morsel for those whose hearts are hungry for a story.” But when fans have been waiting for this book for a decade, a bite is plenty. As Rothfuss himself wrote on his blog, “What is that, really? Just a taste. They came through, and that’s exactly what he did! Kingkiller Chronicle author Patrick Rothfuss promised to read the prologue to his much-anticipated upcoming novel The Doors of Stone if his fans raised a certain amount of money for his WorldBuilders charity.

The Doors of Stone by Patrick Rothfuss