The Rot

They were always warned not to walk too far out of the village walls, yet their curiosity got the best of them. leaving at night they snuck past the village guards, and out they saw a vibrant forest, was this what made everyone in the village so terrified, surely not. After a while they decide to head into the forest, as they get further into the forest a thick smog begins to cling to the floors, and the brightly colored forest begins to decolor into a grey-green mess and they can't help but feel that they are being watched. getting worried they begin to head back only to realize that they don't remember what direction they came from, one of them look up to the moon to attempt to use it to navigate back only to see a creature ripped from their nightmares lurking above them in the trees is a creature with arms made up of what seems to be thousand of decomposing arms fused together into two gigantic arms, a body that almost wasn't there as its decomposed to a point you could shove an entire person in there. a beast-like face snarling with teeth that must number in the hundreds. immediately they begin to run but to no avail, as one of them is grabbed like a child would grab a doll and has their arms torn off with the same ease. The torn arms are shoved like a puzzle piece into the creature's left arm, the rest of the body being left to rot inside of its stomach.