Nhalce

    Civilization is strong. This has been proven countless times. On a world where nature works in a way that makes having a place a hard and never-ending fight, human population has managed to settle almost everywhere on land, fighting off most of the animal and vegetal species that dominated the place before in the process.     Almost everywhere.     The Tann is one of the places that justify this “almost”. Separated from the other lands hundreds millions of years ago, standing on tropical latitudes, this gigantic island whose size earned it the title of continent was accosted late in the era of great discoveries, and held n

 Emma gave another exasperated look at the muddy, dim water of the mangrove. The British girl, youngest member of the expedition, was standing in the smallest of their two boats – the one without a motor, and above all the one they had impaled on a pointy trunk hidden under the surface. The rest of the team had brought the big motored boat as close as possible, but the surrounding trees with their huge nets of roots resembling large bells over and under the mangrove waters left no other choice for the passengers of the half sunken wreck than to walk through the swamp carrying whatever could be saved. Emma had let the others go first, gr

 The feeling of cold stone against her skin woke her up first. As she shot her eyes open, Emma realised that the atmosphere was a lot more humid than it should have been and that she was in complete darkness. She shivered. The young girl, lying against the stone ground, lifted her upper body and looked around her, vainly trying to see something, a disturbed look on her face. She had no memory of coming here at all. She didn’t even know where “here” was. Emma rose on her knees. She was a young and attractive British girl whose liking for sports showed through her slim body and firm, toned limbs despite the presence of notice

 The feeling of cold stone against her skin woke her up first. As she shot her eyes open, Emma realised that the atmosphere was a lot more humid than it should have been and that she was in complete darkness. She shivered. The young girl, lying against the stone ground, lifted her upper body and looked around her, vainly trying to see something, a disturbed look on her face. She had no memory of coming here at all. She didn’t even know where “here” was. Emma rose on her knees. She was a young and attractive British girl whose liking for sports showed through her slim body and firm, toned limbs despite the presence of notice