You should read the other stories by Patrick Rothfuss which take place in the Kingkiller Chronicle universe. Some of them range into proper novellas; I'm pretty sure you can find them all online. In order, How Old Holly Came to Be is a very short story from the perspective of a tree, The Lightning Tree takes place just before the Kingkiller Chronicle's events and focuses on Bast, and The Slow Regard of Silent Things is an AWESOME novella about Auri. Spread them out to help ease the pain while you wait <3