Honestly, I think this counts as a zine as well. Where did I even get this? It’s a mystery.*
I ended up reading it more than once— literally I read it, then read it again, and then when I went to write about it, I read it agia . It’s a short 21 pager. The story is concise amd cute— an herbalist moves into the woods close to a small town, only to find a creature lives there already.
Once offered tea, the guardian of the forest— a monster by any standard— gladly gives approval for the herbalist to move in. They spend a lot of time enjoying one another’s company, gathering herbs and drinking tea and conversating. One night the herbalist is attacked and it ends in off screen monster fucking. They live happily ever after.
It’s so fucking cute, dude. This is just a bit of sugar told in a fairy tale format. The moral is be kind and stuff.
*It ended up being one of the bonus books I got from backing Transphoria.
