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I liked it. Weirdly, my favourite detail was about the wrack trees and their seedpods. Now I'm wondering why they evolved like that. Maybe to destroy surrounding vegetation to make more space for the young wrack trees? But then do they have extra-hard bark so they're not destroyed by other trees' seedpods? If so, did the natives use the bark as a material for making armour/weapons etc? I know, weird thing to focus on, but it just caught my imagination.

This is brilliant. Clever and creepy in equal measure. Bonus points for the use of 'phantasmagoria'.

Very nice. I liked the ending, and you got in a good amount of characterisation given how little space there was. To be hyper-pedantic, there were a few minor grammatical errors, but nothing that affected comprehension or the flow of the story.

That's great, thank you very much. That typo is so annoying! I thought I'd proofread it so thoroughly too... I definitely agree about the end, but I was right up against the wordcount limit.