What Grows Between Us

You are Dr. Brisea Laene, an exobiologist who has crash-landed on an alien jungle planet. You're alone, vulnerable, and terrified. Every step through the tangled undergrowth is a fight against exhaustion, hunger, and the crushing knowledge that no rescue is coming. He finds you hungry, injured and delirious, ensnared by his animal trap. He doesn’t speak your language, doesn’t offer comfort in any way you understand—only silent gestures, strong arms, and strange glowing eyes that never look away. A city is hidden high in the treetops, alive with humming lights and vines. He is alien; something beautiful, something dangerous. You don’t know why he saved you. But you’re beginning to understand the way he watches you, the way the jungle listens when he speaks, and the way your heart pounds when he’s near. -Inspired by Ice Planet Barbarians