"Hunting Party" is my half of a trade with Ollie Canal, the creator of Rym, the Lutrai, and Harkai that feature in the story. The Harkai have been renamed Skoles, in the intervening years, and thier personalities and back-history changed as Ollie has developed Rym. Initially, Ollie's main focus was the Lutrai, and he engaged me to write a number of stories, adult in nature, wherein a lot of "bad things" happen to the Lutrai in them, furthering the setting within Rym that the Lutrai are an abused, oppressed people. To a certain extent, the "Rym" stories I wrote were an attempt to see how "nasty" I could be in my writing.