On Dryads

Trees come to life on two legs. Or so Artificer Long tells me. She calls them Dryads. I think she must have lost her wits, for I cannot imagine that it is truly so. With the rate the trees are cut down and grow anew on Aeternum, you'd think they'd all turn to screaming monsters seeking revenge on the denizens of this land. So if they're not trees, and they're not people, what are they? -Bao