'Shadow and Bone' author Leigh Bardugo said she felt like a 'monster' when she heard a child actor cry on the show's set for season two

• Leigh Bardugo said that she felt like a "monster" on the set of "Shadow and Bone" season two.
• The author said that, without giving spoilers, there was a very convincing child actor crying on set.

"Shadow and Bone" author Leigh Bardugo said that she felt like a "monster" after she had to listen to a child actor cry during a scene in the show's second season.

Bardugo appeared on Saturday at a New York Comic Con panel about her popular young adult series and its Netflix adaptation, "Shadow and Bone." Alongside series actors Ben Barnes (The Darkling), Kit Young (Jesper Fahey), Freddy Carter (Kaz Brekker), and Amita Suman (Inej Ghafa), she teased the show's second season without divulging any major spoilers.

"When I was on set for season two, and I cannot give this away, but there was a scene they were shooting, and there was a small child crying in the scene, and he's a very good actor," Bardugo said during the panel. "And I was like, 'Oh God, I am a monster.'"

Bardugo is the architect of the Grishaverse, a magical universe that encapsulates her fantasy trilogy beginning with the novel "Shadow and Bone" as well as the "Six of Crows" duology set. The Netflix series adaptation primarily tells the story contained within "Shadow and Bone," while also incorporating characters from "Six of Crows" to flesh out the universe.

Bardugo told Insider near the time of the series premiere that she made clear to showrunner Eric Heisserer early on in that she didn't want to get "locked out" of the series. In addition to giving her input during the development process for the show, she also had a cameo in its first season.

Despite her anecdote about the child crying on set, Bardugo said that she doesn't consider her stories to be "tragedies," despite the prices her characters sometimes must pay.

"Mostly, I try to tell stories honestly. I'm not interested in telling the stories where there are no casualties but there's a war. That doesn't happen," Bardugo said.