The Mushroom Moon Festival

Sanae keeps her hands in the dirt because dirt does not ask for smiles. When a strange call pulls her from a quiet mushroom farm into a room full of contracts and sharp eyes, she uses the only power she trusts, growth that answers her touch. The farm soon yields mushrooms no book can name, and powerful men start circling her like she is a prize, a tool, and a problem all at once. She wants enough land, enough silence, and enough control to keep her farm safe. Instead, she gets a table full of offers, a broken trust, and three men who each think they can set her path. Her calm is real, but so is the part of her that decides who gets to live close to her.