The Time Tree

**Third Place Winner of Gandalf's Challenge** @CJ_Callahan Her eyes looked wonderingly at the small plant that has sprouted out of her small, child size garden. It was strange to her young and inexperienced hands, but naneth had told her not to touch it. To leave it be. "Trees are sacred," naneth had explained gently. "This one is no exception, for it has decided to spring up where you have watered the ground and grown your flowers. Trees do not make decisions lightly."

And so she let the tree grow.