Joe Berridge Beale

The vast majority of alien based science fiction depicts extraterrestrials as malevolent, destructive beings who want to do nothing more than exterminate all humans. This is a look into what it would be like if the situation was reversed.

For setting alight an ancient magical forest, King Harraca comes under a curse from a Lamia, whereby for each day the wood burns: he looses one social rank in his kingdom. Going from King, to Councilor, to Knight, to Peasant, can he kill the Lamia before he is undone? Or will he too be set ablaze by the inferno he himself unleashed?