True Names

cw: physical parental abuse, mentions of ABA therapy, suicidal ideation, internalized homophobia/transphobia

Mysterious monsters in the forest? Genderless strangers on the river banks cut off from the rest of the world? Forests that actively impede progress through them? Long lost childhood friends? These and more are mysteries given to a depressed suicidal egg to try and figure out. Is it an excuse not to follow through on drowning herself? Perhaps, but it's a daunting effort for poor traumatized young adult. Up against nature, an abusive father, and her own internalized transphobia, can this lost child find her path with the stranger in the woods as her guide?