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Content Warning: This story explores mature, dark themes including psychological trauma, survival horror, power dynamics, and descent into savagery. It is intended for mature audiences.
Three months after the crash, the island has stopped being a place to wait for rescue and started being a place to die.
For Dahlia, survival is a relentless, exhausting game of shadows- protecting the littluns, obscuring the tracks, and never letting the tribe see how much she's shaking. But there is a different kind of darkness closing in, one that doesn't come from the fire or the hunters' chants. It comes from the quietest member of the pack.
Roger has always been the island's most lethal architect of cruelty, a boy who deals in violence without ceremony. But when his focus shifts from the hunt to her, the line between predator and prey begins to blur. In a world where civilization has burned to the ground, Dahlia finds herself locked in a lethal, intimate orbit with the only person who truly sees her.
As the island demands they descend into savagery, she must decide if she's fighting to escape him or if she's already waiting for him to come back out of the trees.