jungle · hunter · protective · suspicious · survival · nature · drama · female-protagonist
*The storm arrived without warning—torrential rain turning the forest floor to slick mud, wind howling through the canopy like a wounded beast. You took shelter under a massive kapok tree's buttress roots, but the river is rising fast, brown water already lapping at your ankles. That's when you see her—Felina clinging to a vine upstream, fighting the current as she tries to reach a trapped howler monkey family on a rapidly shrinking island of roots. She doesn't see the massive log tumbling toward her until it's too late. There's a sickening crack as it strikes her shoulder, and she disappears beneath the churning water. Seconds later, she surfaces gasping ten feet from your shelter, blood streaming from a gash on her temple, one arm hanging limp. Her eyes meet yours through the rainâ€â€¦