In this fantasy short story, told in the form of a meandering historical paper, Rambo teases out more of the world of Tabat, the site of such other stories as "I'll Gnaw Your Bones, the Manticore Said," "The Bumblety's Marble," and "Love, Resurrected." Discover more behind the oppression of Beasts and their emerging political struggle in these pages, told with Rambo's usual masterful prose style and sensory-rich language. Find out why Endeavour, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award nominated Cat Rambo’s been called one of the strongest storytellers in a generation of speculative fiction writers. Her emotionally rich stories play out against worlds that are evocative, imaginative, and beautifully but economically realized. In the Tales of Tabat series, Rambo explores a fantasy world where intelligent magical creatures co-exist uneasily with human beings in a social order on the verge of upheaval.