it's so important that this story starts out mentioning that the child is loved. it really makes every decision after meaningful. evocative, unfluffy writing makes it float by with a marked chilliness, which a good folk tale often inspires. curious that you think it's unfinished. you already wrote the only possible ending!
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Thank you so much! I'm glad you enjoyed it. My feeling of it being "unfinished" is mostly about wanting to do an editing pass (what's there is more-or-less a first draft) and layering in some additional text variation, plus typography and illustration. But it makes me so happy to hear that you got it!