Life in the amazon jungle is ruled by a single law: the survival of the fittest. Eat or be eaten. All the creatures that inhabit this beautiful, but dangerous paradise know that waking up another day is a precious gift from allmother Yacuruna. However, this young human girl raised by monkeys who skillfully hangs from the vine with her toes sometimes refuses to obey the natural order of this place.
Since she was a baby, Y'shaati was breastfed by Naka'i females, just like all the other monkeys pups of her age. As she grew up, her diet began to be based on a wide variety of fruits, seeds, herbs and insects. She was always happy to climb trees to taste a juicy mango or to use sticks to eat some termites from an old log.
However, upon reaching teenage, the Naka'i elders knew that soon she would began to feel curious to taste something else: meat. She was human after all, and they feared her predatory instinct would awake, unleashing her dormant wild side. To avoid this, the Naka'i asked the Uturuncu, one of the biggest felines in the amazon, to instruct her in the art of hunting.
At first, the girl was truly excited to learn everything about being a predator. But then, the day she claimed her first prey, something changed in her. When she saw the blood of the baby Tapir she had killed, splattered all over her hands and body, she knew this wasn't her thing, although she couldn't deny the truth... the meat was delicious.
From that day, she decided that she didn't want to kill to survive, so she swore never to hunt or kill any animal unless it was extremely necessary. She would continue to feed and live like a true Naka'i.
But life in the jungle is relentless, and you never know when you'll have to kill to live another day...
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