You've done some great work in this an it's nice to have the agency of exploration sections to break up the gameplay. The art is similarly fantastic.
I feel the game is a little overwritten at times, it can be a bit weird to say you're using too many adjectives... but each time you use them it slows down the players reading speed and makes it take more effort to parse each sentence.
I also thought that the light area in the exploration setting was a bit small, crossing over from thematic and into making the game hard to play.
Those are kind of nitpicky small bones though, you've done great work.