Mambooko: The native guide for adventurers, indigenous to the Amazon rain forest, his tribe protects the land. He is a tall skinny white man with glasses.
Why am I here?
The animal has ravaged my lands?
Took my brother?
At first, it was my tribe that slowly killed the cattle. The Brazilians were killing the land, and we took back what we could, but we full well knew it wouldn’t stop them.
The shaman went up the mountain, to the highest ridges, seeking for an answer. He had been gone for 2 years, and we had lost hope.
We had all but accepted our fate when he walked out from the wilderness carrying a child. He found the answer to our problem.
He never said where she came from, but we knew this was no ordinary child. We had to feed her whole sides of beef as she grew, until we could teach her to hunt. That was our mistake.
We did not know the power granted to this child, but we trained her to hunt like the panther, the tiger, the snake… then she killed a Brazilian rancher. She devoured him down to the bones.
When we awoke that morning to a pungent smell of death, and found her lying asleep in a pool of blood, sucking on the thum of a meatless hand, we knew it was too late.
We tried to restrain her, but she killed four men before we were able to bind her legs. As my brother tied her hands, she managed to lunge at this neck. He died several hours later.
We sealed her in a cave with two sides of beef. When we returned to feed her the next day, she had escaped.
I discovered her lair one day while hunting wild bore. My tribe dared not go back to finish the job.
Every step I take back toward the monsters hiding place is a fearful one.