While doing routine chores on a farm, the narrator encountered two deer stepping from the woods—unafraid and unusually calm. One of them, a smaller deer, approached the fence and dropped a bundle wrapped in dark fabric. Inside was a worn wooden box containing a tarnished silver locket carved with unsettling symbols. As the narrator processed this strange encounter, the deer paused and beckoned silently toward the woods, prompting them to follow. It led to a mysterious clearing centered around a massive black-branched oak tree. Beneath the tree, the deer vanished, and freshly disturbed earth revealed a hidden stone tablet marked with matching symbols and a sealed parchment that ominously read: “For the one who is chosen. The truth is not safe… but this is only the beginning.”

Haunted by the event, the narrator couldn’t sleep, feeling an intense sense of being watched. Driven by unease, they researched local folklore and uncovered stories of a secret order sworn to protect something known as “The Veil.” The locket, it turns out, is rumored to be a key linked to this mysterious order. What began as a strange but seemingly harmless animal encounter has evolved into a brush with ancient forces and long-buried secrets. With the discovery of the locket and the message buried beneath the oak, the narrator realizes they’ve been chosen—or trapped—by something far larger than themselves. And now, caught in the mystery, they admit they’re in too deep to turn back.