For a moment, nothing happened.
“Good. Honest. Now, what do you feel when you are alone in your room, naked, with no one watching?” cmnf fantasy
Then the Wood screamed —not in rage, but in relief. The trees bent toward her like worshippers. The silver sap turned to light. And from the deep dark, something stepped out: not a monster, but a woman. Tall, bark-skinned, with eyes like embers. A dryad. The first one seen in a thousand years. For a moment, nothing happened
She did. For the first time in her life, she did not feel like a vessel. She felt like a person. For a moment