BrainDeer

Braindeer

Witnessed by Patient 19 through the Ward C window

A sinewy deer-shaped thing with a brain for a torso, pulsing under slick lavender skin. Its antlers twist like antennae and twitch to silent signals—sometimes days before storms.

Patient 19 says it doesn’t walk. It skips time, blinking forward between trees like a bad tape. She swears it left hoofprints on the inside of her window.

No one else has seen it. Yet.