I have been reading the wheel of time for 26 years. I actually started reading them while I was in prison. I had read the first 6 books and a few years later I read books 6-10 and now many years later and in quarantine due to COVID 19 I re read the the first 10 books and the last 4. I just finished a memory of light not 15 mins ago and I am emotionally exhausted. The core group of characters have been intimate friends for nearly half of my life. To say that I feel the loss of my brave and noble friends is an understatement. I have journeyed with them through wondrous and far away lands. I have learned the ways of the savage Aiel.I have watched kingdoms fall and fallen kingdoms rise. I have wielded the one power. I have seen hell spawn ravage and destroy.I have seen dark hounds with their silver eyes , and eyeless fades with their black cloaks that never move in the wind. I have been to rhuidean and received the dragon of clan chief. matrim and Perrin and of course Rand al Thor are a part of me now. Blood and bloody ashes what a long and perilous journey it has been. How my life has changed and been changed during the reading of the wheel of time. This is not the end my journey for there is no end to the wheel of time but it is an ending. May the lord dragon watch over you all. Thank you Robert Jordan for the journey of a lifetime. May you always find shade