#2 When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi Vo

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 This novella is set in the same universe but stands alone and can be read without having read The Empress of Salt and Fortune. A cleric has taken a routine trip in the mountains and is trapped in a barn by three tigers. Chih only safety is under the legs of the mammoth they rode on with the mammoth rider. A bargain very much like Scheherazade’s of telling a tale in order to pass the time and hopefully escape becoming dinner for the three tiger ladies. The tale is told two ways first by Chih and then by the lead tiger lady correcting all the wrong ways the tale of scholar and her tiger lover has been told to the cleric.  Chin dutifully writes down the corrections in order for the truth of the story to come out even if they do not make it out of the claws of the tiger ladies.  

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