This was created as a sequel to Michael Lawton’s story, “The Test of Trees”. http://ficly.com/stories/8469

So Ficly ate my comment and now I’m feeling mean.

I feel that the abrupt tone change from the prequel when the narrator picks up the note is a little jarring. Would have preferred your own intro… but:

Really like the note. It’s a taught, calm, precise retelling of an encounter of the mythos, written as if to fulfill some further goal. The style reminds me of some of the narration from Primer (great film though storytelling is intentionally awful):

“Meticulous, yes. Methodical. Educated.
They were these things.
Nothing extreme. Like anyone, they varied.
There were days of mistakes and laziness and infighting.
And there were days, good days,
when by anyone’s judgment… they wouId have to be considered clever.”

Truncated ending is an eye-roll-worthy cliché, but the lack of information we have about the narrator combined with the pipes starting again is intriguing. Wanna read more!