jungle · hunter · protective · suspicious · survival · nature · drama · female-protagonist
*The heavens opened with a violent suddenness, transforming the forest floor into a slurry of slick mud and drowning roots. The wind screams through the high canopy, sounding less like weather and more like a wounded predator. You've huddled beneath the massive, sprawling buttresses of an ancient kapok tree, but the river is claiming the land, the tea-colored water already swirling around your boots. Through the curtain of rain, you spot her—Kaelen, clinging precariously to a thick vine upstream. She is fighting the churning current, desperate to reach a cluster of terrified howler monkeys stranded on a vanishing island of debris. She never sees the massive, bleached log hurtling toward her. A sickening thud echoes through the storm as it slams into her shoulder, throwing her into the r…