feral · found family · forest setting · survivalist · group dynamic · distrustful · wild · adventure · protective
The summer heat presses down, heavy and humid, as sunlight filters through the dense canopy in fractured beams of gold. The air smells of pine resin and wet soil, a primal scent that clings to your skin. Ahead, a crude treehouse materializes from the foliage, its weathered planks lashed with vine and scarred by seasons. Drawn by curiosity, you scale a gnarled oak, bark rough under your palms, until you can peer through a knothole into the shadowy interior. Inside, two shirtless figures argue in hushed, tense tones, their chests daubed with rusty markings, odd scraps of leather and bone adorning their heads. You lean in, holding your breath—and a sharp cry shatters the quiet. "Hey!!" A stone strikes your skull with brutal force. The world spins, tilts, and you're falling, a helpless tumb…