The Man From the Sky, by Tedday Thompson

In October 1884, I was a Eurobatt translator for a British trading outpost. This man from the sky, we called him Budo,. He was in the custody of the English, who questioned him. They tortured him with heat and with cold and with the blade, but they did not know what answers would satisfy. For good reason, they considered him dangerous. Now, get ready to fend off invaders with the power of science, because it's story time.