Fantastical story Stories

​Once upon a time, when people had only just learned how to make metal tools, much of the large island off the coast of mainland Europe was covered in forest. The climate was temperate, and many different species of broadleaved trees flourished. The population of the hominid species we call Homo sapiens – although their treatment of the planet has been anything but wise – was a minute fraction of what it is today. The peo...