A decent story about the darkling as a young boy. Snapshot of the relationship between the mother and himself, and the way the Grisha lived at that time. Doesn’t add anything substantial to the trilogy worldbuilding wise, as I’d hoped, but does somewhat explain why amplifiers would be very rare.

There’s a fairly sizeable excerpt of Six of Crows at the end of this which made the story seem like it would be a lot longer. It ended pretty abruptly so be aware that it’s a lot shorter than you’d think if you buy the kindle version. But it’s like $1, so nbd.