There have been many novels in which someone has forged a friendship with an animal. Jack London’s classic Call Of The Wild comes to mind. But in her fantasy novella Untethered Sky (hardcover, Kindle), writer Fonda Lee takes the nature companionship genre into a different realm by having the befriended animal be a mythical creature. In the following email interview about it, Lee discusses why she went this route, as well as what classic nature novels inspired this story.