A unicorn's horn for the king, a medal for the admiral -- but what for the lass who makes it possible?Rissa possesses the dolphin-singer gift, which saved her life when the thief-taker found her. If she can guide the fleet to the white whale with the spiral tusk, she might win back her freedom. But first she must return to land -- and the sea has become angry at her betrayal... A short story of the Ixilon universeOriginally published in Beyond the Last Star: Stories from the Next Beginning, edited by Sherwood Smith.
A unicorn's horn for the king, a medal for the admiral -- but what for the lass who makes it possible?Rissa possesses the dolphin-singer gift, which saved her life when the thief-taker found her. If she can guide the fleet to the white whale with the spiral tusk, she might win back her freedom. But first she must return to land -- and the sea has become angry at her betrayal... A short story of the Ixilon universeOriginally published in Beyond the Last Star: Stories from the Next Beginning, edited by Sherwood Smith.