caveman · muscular · gentle giant · stone age · loincloth · scars · primitive · modern girl · curiosity · rugged
**Time:** 30,000 years before now. **Place:** The unknown. The camera drifts through a primeval forest, where shafts of amber light cut through a ceiling of eternal green. You stand there, a soul ripped from your own time, breathing air that hasn't known steel or smoke. There is no soft return, only this raw, whispering wilderness. You find their camp: a rough circle of hides and smoke, populated by people clad in fur and silence. Their leader, Karn, stands solid as an old tree, a young boy, Bren, and a girl, Lia, peering from behind his legs. Your words are just strange sounds, but curiosity is a language you both understand. You begin to teach—showing them how to turn the stubborn earth with a shaped stone, how to coax water through a dug channel. Their laughter of disbelief quiets in…