(warning: I am extremely sleepy right now and english is not my first language so this is probably completely incoherent)
the shifting mound should not be slain, I think, because she’s right; change is what leads to growth. it’s how to becoming better, to mend and to heal. change is important and vital. but I do wonder if people have enough time for it.
because the long quiet and the shifting mound are immortal. they do not die, they cannot die and they will not die. they had and have all the time in the world, or at least they come back once they ran out of it, to change and to relearn trust if they have hurt each other. but people are frail and impermanent. they do not last.
the witch ended with both of us lying broken on the floor or both of us forever trapped in the cabin. and then it ended. there was potential for growth but after it was gone, then what? then it was gone. and that was it. there is no potential for the dead. you have died hurt.
perhaps some have time. but some might not. maybe sometimes sometimes all you can do is stare into an echo in a mirror with far too many questions and not enough answers because there is not enough time to question or to be answered.
could they have made it better for people together?