A Better Fate

Hal remains undead for one purpose: to seek vengeance for her own demise. But with her body falling to pieces, her memories nearly gone, and a magical storm on the rise, that's a tough job. When a dryad offers to help Hal retrace her steps to find her killer, it seems fate might finally be on her side. Forgotten pasts are not always friendly, though. With the dryad's life hanging in the balance, Hal must decide whether to hold to the goals of her life or choose a new path in her undeath.

This darkly whimsical short story features a fairytale wlw relationship between a zombie and a dryad. Trigger warnings for this story are memory loss, mild descriptions of rot, and the general state of being undead. This story is not a part of the These Treacherous Tides universe.