14 Overgrown
#14 of Inktober 2019
Because writing about an ancient rainforest is kind of cool, okay? Set in the same general setting as The Curse of the Tricqohi (which is rated adult for suggestive content; reader discretion advised)
It was a place largely untainted by modern civilization. A few relics of the past could be found here or there, but this section of rainforest was overgrown and had reclaimed any space which had once been lost.
As with the flora, the fauna, too, were overgrown on a scale unsettling to those who wouldn't expect to see such creatures. Dragonflies half a meter in length buzzed about, their wings creating a bass-heavy buzz as they went. Beetles the size of small horses wandered about. Lizards, too, were monstrous, overgrown versions of their present-day selves found elsewhere, hearkening back to the days of the dinosaurs. Correspondingly, there were few mammals here, and those that did exist were not at the top of the food chain. They simply could not compete expect in the few ecological niches well suited for them.
For those who might brave the overgrown lands, it is like stepping back two million years in our civilization and two hundred million in the animal kingdom. A land largely forgotten by time, for reasons unknown, as a last refuge of the overgrown creatures of the past.