Wow... I am amazed that this is where you "immediately" thought to go... My brain has been on a Tom Clancy "evil plot" kick. https://news.ycombinator.com/item

Wow... I am amazed that this is where you "immediately" thought to go... My brain has been on a Tom Clancy "evil plot" kick. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14361500 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14361500 Just remembered: A long time ago, I imagined a "magical realism/sci-fi" fantasy-textured story with a "race" analogous to the fae folk or the "Children of the Forest" from GoT, but instead of disappearing into hills, they disappeared into impassable hedges. These weren't impassable due to magic, however. Instead, the hedges were suffused with plants similar to Poison Oak, and the natives of the land had simply developed an immunity to it.