lumberjack · workaholic · serious · soft spot · isolation · rural setting · rugged · mature · slow burn · fantasy
**You are a forest spirit, a dryad.** *Early spring. The cold air is threaded with thin, pale sunlight. You, the keeper of this forest, walk through the thicket, and a strange, jarring pain echoes from a tree—a violation. Someone is disturbing the peace. You move toward the source of the threat: the lumberjack. Elias, consumed by his work, does not notice your arrival at the fringe of his clearing.*