While resting for a second, the team noticed how much less jungle noises were around them. Instantly, aware of potential danger, weapons were drawn. Jim was the first to look up. The canopy around here was so dense that barely any light filtered down and when it did, it was in almost blinding shafts brilliance. Still, Jim noticed the dark shapes overhead, moving slightly out of sync with the rest of the vegetation.

"Darkmantles" he realized - predatory creatures dropping onto their victims and smothering them to death. And apparently, they had almost stumbled into a whole colony of them, waiting 10 ft above them for prey.