What had seemed like harmless fun turned into something disturbing. Gabriel decided to follow the monkey deeper into the jungle to understand what was happening. The path grew rough, tangled with roots and vines, and the dense canopy above blocked out most of the sunlight.
The jungle closed in around him, the dense canopy thickening and casting eerie shadows that seemed to reach out with ghostly fingers. The air grew colder, wrapping him in a suffocating chill that seemed to press down on him with increasing weight.