TRAPPED IN A OCEAN OF LUSH VINES

The path had faded beneath a thicket of climbing foliage. Sunlight, filtered through the leaves above, cast dancing patterns on the forest floor. Doubt swirled within me as I scrambled deeper into the impenetrable embrace of the vines. A whispering path, lost beneath centuries of growth, beckoned a way out. But would I find it before the grove clai