Setting: Jungle

Emotion: Fear

The blazing sun was cooking Carlos de la Paz alive.

The heavy breast plate felt like an oven against his chest.

His helmet and halberd dropped long ago.

Sagging against a tree, he could hear the cries of the warriors through the trees.

All of his compadres were gone – dead or otherwise missing.

As the cries grew closer, he saw a snake slithering down from above.

Deep panicked breaths overtook him. It wasn’t if, but how, he would die today that consumed him.