The Sentient Tree
Deep inside the thatched maze that is Jimmie’s Hell lives a sentient tree so old and powerful that her grandkids’ grandkids grew, fell, and rotted into the belly of a borer ages before Stonega even had a name to speak of. She grows over a buried beast, a Middle Thing of the Inner Dark called the Cindering, her roots binding it to its prison beneath the ground. But not all is what it seems, and it will turn out that she’s not really a sentient tree after all, but something molded into the shape of a tree.
