• Becoming Human

    Watching was the hardest part of being a tree. It could do nothing to change what was happening, because they didn’t speak the same language, and it wasn’t sure they would listen if it did. Over the years, having lived long enough to remember a time before magic, it watched humans hunt those who were different to them, even though they were the same species. Hunt was probably the wrong word. Hunting was a natural process. What the humans did was unnatural. The trees often talked about the humans, trying to understand why they did what they did. First magic was seen as a good thing, and people with it…