Short chapters, I’m surprised no one critiqued these yet. With the chapters being so short it’s hard to get a good grasp of the setting, the plot, and the character of Vara. I don’t dislike her and you could have something good here, but it’ll take more writing to actually figure this out.
That said, what you have right now does have some points I want to address.
You start off with a spoof in the opening. Personally I’m not a big fan of not only such a blatant parody, but also of breaking the fourth wall so blatantly. The second person perspective you’ve got going in the first paragraph rubs me wrong. That may be just me, so mileage may vary indeed. For me the opening doesn’t exactly hook me.
What I will suggest is that with this kind of opening I expect humour, further parody elements, and basically a story that doesn’t take itself seriously. That’s the promise you’re making to me as the reader and if that’s not what’s going to happen you might want to reconsider the opening.
The rest of the chapter worked better, but it’s short so I’m still in the process of forming an opinion on the world and the character of Vara. When you mentioned she lived in a tree I expected an elfish fantasy, but the butcher makes me think of a more modern setting. Either one might be interesting at this point.
As for Vara, with her sensitive ears I’m thinking some form of elf, but again, not enough detail to know for sure yet. I liked her fear of a simple lizard though, it’s a defining character moment and you need those right now.
As for chapter two, I get that a butcher has a lot of knives, but the way he throws them around makes me think he has too many. Also, my first impression is that he’s far too eager to cut off her hands. Maybe that’s the times, the society or the culture, but I know nothing of those yet other than that this ‘isn’t a galaxy far, far away’.
You have some odd things here too, such as ‘wood splintering’. What from? The butcher is throwing knives, not axes.
Your math is also off. If three digometers equals four meters, than one digometer is 1.33 meters. Which means that one hundred digometers equals 133 meters ( (4/3)*100), not 101 meters. Also, the world is called “Dig” and they measure in “digometers”. Really? Is this the comedic element because, while I am laughing, it’s because this is remarkably bad. I’m sorry, but it is. Digometers add nothing to the setting and have no clear meaning. You know this since you put the ‘real’ distance in brackets. This is not a good solution.
