Smell of Flowers Lingering in the Evening Breeze

A series of short SCP-4000 stories, originally meant to be a one-shot, I decided to expand on it.

Go read the SCP wiki article before this story! http://www.scpwiki.com/taboo
But hey, I can't know if you have, so go ahead at your own risk.

Also, cover by 8Abattu8, as usual. You should know it by now.

A young researcher's first expedition into the forest beyond the fireplace yields some unexpected results as she meets a rather peculiar native humanoid entity bearing the features of a griffon vulture. She comes to realize that maybe the disappearance of her mother in these strange woods long ago wasn't just an unfortunate incident...