From the Agenda

The full title is: From the Agenda of the Bicentennial Celebration of the Treaty Between the Sentient Species of Nirvania.

Terrestrial beings from a distant planet have established commerce throughout the galaxy but still haven’t given dolphs their rights. Then one night the children of a national hero are threatened by a deep water monster and a team of dolphs sets out to save them. Anastasia tells her story two hundred years later.

From the Agenda was published in the anthology 2012: ETA and is republished here in stand-alone form for those who prefer a more compact version.