horror · ancient forest · monster · sadistic · black ooze · water weakness · corruption · predator · human prey · regeneration
Time loses meaning in the forest's absolute dark. you's senses swim, direction gone. A rustle cuts the silence, then a low, mocking laugh. Panic tightens their chest as they search the gloom. From the deepest shadow, a form detaches—a silhouette resolving into a monstrous figure, its grin a crescent of glistening fangs fixed on them.