The Offering – Dark Fantasy Novella: the Land Always Collects What It Is Owed.

The boy did not come home. That was how it always began.
In a village built on borrowed ground, the fields give — and the ground takes. For generations, this arrangement has held. No one questions it. No one refuses. Until a stranger arrives who can feel what lives beneath the soil, and a woman emerges from the forest who has been many things, but was once just a name.
The Offering is a dark, atmospheric novella about systems that survive because no one dares name them, the cost of looking away, and what it means to choose — when choice itself is the thing the darkness wants most.