This gave me some serious Hag house in the forest kind of vibe and more than delivered on the creepy vibe that such a story should have. The build up was well done and the use of environment to support the tone was excellent.
If I was going to ask for anything with it, it would have been to know a bit more about the environment to better support said tone, but doing so with the assigned word limit is very hard to do. Either way, loved it!