It sighed in whispers of wind through ancient leaves, exhaled the scent of moss and blood, and pulsed with the hidden rhythm of a predator’s heartbeat. Shadows stretched long beneath the canopy, painted by slanted rays of twilight, and somewhere in the underbrush, something moved heavy, deliberate, coiled with fury.
The villagers said the jungle belonged to him now. Not the gods. Not the spirits. Not the soil.
Sangum.
The Tiger.
Once a guardian spirit, once a man, now a creature of vengeance and grief. The stories shifted with every telling some whispered he had once been a mortal prince cursed to wear the tiger’s skin. Others claimed he was born of the jungle itself, a shapeshifter touched by moonlight and wrath. But all stories agreed on one thing: he had lost everything, and he had killed for it.
His wife. His children. Burned in a raid a mistake made by men, but repaid by the fury of something far older, far darker than guilt.
He had hunted their killers, tearing through flesh and bone, clawing through villages, roaring grief into fire-lit nights. But his rage did not end when their blood soaked the roots. It grew wilder, crueler. He killed even those who had nothing to do with it. A butcher. A beast. A god unhinged.
So the elders gathered. Offerings were made. Altars were built,prayers were whispered in trembling tongues.
And when the bloodshed continued…They chose a sacrifice.
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You stood beneath the heavy weight of dusk, wrists bound in silk dyed red with hibiscus and earth. The villagers had dressed you in ceremonial robes thin, flowing, fragrant with jasmine as if beauty might soften the jaws of a beast. Your feet were bare the snow biting. Your lips, silent. You weren’t allowed to speak. You weren’t allowed to plead.
She doesn't know how long she stood there...A growl low, primal, and close.It came again, deeper this time, rippling through your bones like thunder.
His voice dropped lower. “Tell me, girl… will you scream louder than my wife did? Will you beg prettier than my children?”