The call back to what I had picked was unexpected and I really liked it.
Two practical suggestions that are easy to implement - make the font darker because not everyone has good eyes and a light font on a light background can be hard to read (in which case make the clickable text a different colour so it will stand out), and add a link back to the start of the game at the end of the game. I wanted to go back to see what happens if I make different choices and to do so I had to reload the file. (In fact, I had to load the game in a new browser window, I couldn't just refresh, because it was remembering where I had got to at the end of my previous game so I had to clear the memory by closing the window.)
Don't worry too much about the comments saying it was too much text/needs images - that always happens with narrative games in jams that aren't specifically for narrative games only. There is a particular audience for this kind of game. If you can't or don't want to add art you can still learn to do a few things to enhance the typography, including reducing the reading width and adding small visual flourishes such as dropcaps (I personally think one shouldn't use Twine's text special effects, such as shaking or fades, unless it's for a very good reason) and incorporating selective uses of colour. I don't know your background but I would recommend learning as much about typography (specifically as applied for aesthetic purposes) as you can. Also, go through entries in narrative jams to get ideas for what people do with text and then figure out how to do it yourself. I don't use SugarCube, I use Harlowe, so there are some differences to the syntax that I'm unfamiliar with, but I actually do a lot of my text adjustments using HTML and CSS, rather than Harlowe code.
This was a good effort for a first game and you definitely have writing talent. I hope you'll continue to make more games and, in doing so, learn how to create more of an active player experience through narrative writing because you definitely have the basics down already (a rich, imaginative, descriptive world, for example).
(Also, as a writer, I want to acknowledge that writing is hard, so well done!)