The boreal forest is one of the last great wildernesses on Earth—millions of acres of spruce and pine stretching across the northern latitudes, where the silence can be as unnerving as the predators that stalk its shadows. For one mother and her two children, that silence was broken by something far worse than any wolf or bear.

What began as a quiet walk beneath the towering trees turned into a fight to keep calm, keep moving, and keep together… as they realized something was following them. Something massive. Something intelligent. Something that wasn’t supposed to exist.