Oh I loved this story. The imagery of nature as an almost initial foe really stuck with me, but then that transition to showing what at first seemed like a beast of nature wreaking havoc was so good. Whilst I did see the twist coming a little, at least with the servant fighting against the High Elves, I still loved that it went in that direction. And the way the theme was used was really great. I could see an even more fantastic narrative emerge from this without the constraint of the word count.
The formatting was a little inconsistent, especially for a couple of paragraphs.