CHAPTER SIX
The Price of Remembering
So, for those of you following along, Chapter 6: The Price of Remembering was an absolute bear to spork, because so much of it is just unnecessary. More frustratingly, there's the skeleton of a very powerful scene hidden beneath all the bloat. The challenge I set myself was to cut the chapter down to that skeleton to reveal the scene I think Rothfuss was trying to write: a scene in which two clever men play mind games with each other until one of them pushes the other too far, and they are forced to come to terms. I cut over a thousand words from the chapter, but I did not change or reorder anything that remained. All that you see below is Rothfuss' own words, just...fewer of them.
