A small tale, this one, but a good one. It's a story about an old wood, its guardian and the newcomer who stumbles into it, but like an old tree there are layers and layers under that surface, knotted together to be revealed throughout. Well worth reading, and I hope yo see more from Emily Tesh in the future. (Oh, and the acknowledgements mention an early version on AO3, so I'm curious about where this story grew from)