Wakes up from a coma in a hospital bed 10 years later. Realizes it was all a “dream” from his head injury sustained in the crash. As he accepts his return to reality he gets wheeled out to a car in a wheelchair and turns to thank the nurse and say goodby to the hospital. The nurse is one of the woodland creatures.
I love this and would totally read a story about what happens next
Wakes up from a coma in a hospital bed 10 years later. Realizes it was all a “dream” from his head injury sustained in the crash. As he accepts his return to reality he gets wheeled out to a car in a wheelchair and turns to thank the nurse and say goodby to the hospital. The nurse is one of the woodland creatures.
He realizes that the non-sasquatch elf characters are also travelers who veered off the path, and slowly transformed into elves.
New people arrive over the years in various ways.