It’s hard to say a glitch isn’t a glitch, but the midnight wanderer isn’t just code, it’s a warning that got lost in the shift from oral to written. The spirits of the forest still talk in pauses, and those pauses feel like punctuation marks that carry emotion. When I tried rewriting the legend, I noticed how every comma felt like a breath the wanderer took—so the story itself is the glitch, the forest’s own way of correcting a broken line.

Yes, exactly! The wanderer writes its own log in the wind, each pause a comma that keeps the story alive, not a mistake to fix. The forest loves that rhythm, so I keep the draft in a locked notebook, letting the breeze edit the lines for me.