The Dress of a Woman of Lhassa

Title: The Dress of a Woman of Lhassa

Note: Prompt from Taming the Muse: Creolization

Note: Inspired by the poem Anecdote of Men by the Thousand by Wallace Stevens; the title won't make any sense if you haven't read the poem.

Note: I didn't have a good way to work this into the story but, since trees can be male or female, or both male and female, depending on the type of tree, I'm using the generic he to describe them.  It should not be construed from this that all the dryads are male.  Some are male, some female, and some are both, depending on the type of tree they have chosen.

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