It was almost like a mythological tale, but then set in India or similar, for example. But as you can imagine, all's well that ends well.Īll in all, a very entertaining read with good world-building (for a short story) and an interesting plot. She appears in the form of a big, dangerous fish. All this doesn't occur without incidents or the god(s) themselves intervening: the river Nalendar hides a goddess, is a goddess. But the skink, who is Sursurra, wants Umri to stop Rilhat from acquiring the treasure. 1 She is perhaps best known as the co-publisher and co-editor-in-chief of the Hugo Award -winning Uncanny Magazine with her husband, Michael Damian Thomas. She has won ten Hugo Awards for editing and podcasting in the science fiction genre. Or, Rilhat wants to claim the throne of that area. Thomas is an American librarian, podcaster and award-winning editor. There she unexpectedly encounters Rilhat again, who apparently is after a treasure, which involves an agreement with a certain god, Sursurra, and the lad's former, royal ancestors. It's only after a bit of talking while on the boat Reasonable Expectations (which, when you think about it, says something about the characters and their experiences) that Umri decides to follow the skink to wherever he wants to go. However, he doesn't tell the whole story. Umri encounters a skink - it later turns out he's a god himself, though one who has lost much of his power -, who convinces her to take him with her to the north. But it's also a story in which gods have decisive roles to play. Rilhat has a crush on Umri, wants to make her his princess. A short Fantasy story (free online at ) about a girl, Umri, who seeks to escape the advances of a certain slave broker called Rilhat Imk.
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