Discover the origins of Durzo Blint in this original novella set in the world of Brent Weeks New York Times bestselling Night Angel trilogy.I got a bit of prophecy, the old assassin said. Not enough to be useful, you know. Just glimpses. My wife dead, things like that to keep me up late at night. I had this vision that I was going to be killed by forty men, all at once. But now that you re here, I see they re all you. Durzo Blint.Durzo Blint? Gaelan had never even heard the name.***Gaelan Starfire is a farmer, happy to be a husband and a father, a careful, quiet, simple man. He s also an immortal, peerless in the arts of war. Over the centuries, he s worn many faces to hide his gift, but he is a man ill-fit for obscurity, and all too often he s become a hero, his very names passing into legend: Acaelus Thorne, Yric the Black, Hrothan Steelbender, Tal Drakkan, Rebus Nimble.But when Gaelan must take a job hunting down the world s finest assassins for the beautiful courtesan-and-crimelord Gwinvere Kirena, what he finds may destroy everything he s ever believed in.Word count: ~17,000