Maia was having a strange day. First there was the injured horse that wasn't a horse, along with a badly injured woman, and then there was the discovery that her brother was a bandit. Now she's stuck in the Forest of Sorrows, trying to take care of the injured with only the animals she can speak with for help. It would be nice if more of her helpers had hands.

This story originally appeared in the anthology Changing the World in 2009.