I couldn’t say that it’s love but if it is the leshy, it’s definitely tough. We know it’s motivation is to rid the woods of the tourists, so it would check out that he’d try to give u a kick in the ass so one, he could be sooner removed from the nuisance of the tourists, and two, so he doesn’t have to punish you, as there’s a transactional/mutual respect for an heiress. There’s definitely some ulterior motive from it, even if he didn’t send the letter, it’s odd that it wants the tourists gone despite relishing in feasting on them, unless it’s also answering to a higher entity (like it has to consume/kill/punish the defiant/the outsiders to appease some higher power and it doesn’t actually enjoy it). Where’s that intuition girl, gotta peel back the layers

I’d guess the wood-demon. He seems to have some clairvoyance or know about the personal on goings on this family at the least (knew she was the heiress) and toys w her for his benefit. He wants to tourists gone and adding that extra pressure that her soul is at stake might get her more on the horse, as the guy in the bath house said he didn’t take pleasure in punishing her so maybe the demon is trying to help motivate her more so she doesn’t fail