Nautica Western’s Reviews > A Forest, Darkly > Status Update

Mehrab, girl, the blacksmith you’re fucking literally wandered into the village one night all busted with no memory of his previous life… cannot possibly be unrelated

I tried to read this to go to sleep last night but I got scared and had to unwind with dog videos on my phone

Y’all… shit is hitting the fan fr

I was wondering if Mehrab had considered that her pregnancies from Faolan miscarried, as well… so it may be a *her* thing, not a *tree baby* thing

“A child who became a murderer rather than a victim- and that’s a heavy burden, for women are taught to be victims first.”

“I offer no chains, I will take whatever crumb you’re prepared to give.”

“The church’ll tell you their Lord created the heavens and earth in seven days, but that seems unlikely to me. Takes a woman nine months to gestate… I think that’s just men trying to one-up everything when they know full well they can’t birth anything but ideas.”