Jasmine Nguyen
BFA in Illustration - Entertainment Arts — IllustrationCamp Wynthor
At Camp Wynthor, siblings Willow and Quinn arrive with their friend Theo for summer camp. On the first night, a counselor tells a chilling tale about a lonely witch who lived in the nearby woods and transformed into a creature tied to a hollow tree. The campers are warned never to enter the forest alone unless they wish to be taken by her.
The next day, Quinn leaves an offering by the hollow tree, but later that night, a boy and some of his friends ignore the warnings and venture into the woods alone. The boy goes missing, sparking panic across the camp. Counselors organize a search party to search for him.
The creature which appears like two bodies merged as one comes out from the woods, driven by loneliness and a desperate need for companionship, seeking friends among the children. It attacks the camp, killing some counselors and children, spreading chaos and fear.
Willow, Quinn, and Theo discover the creature’s lair inside the hollow tree, where Quinn finds the remains of previous victims. They devise a plan to trap it by luring it back underground. In a tense final encounter, Quinn lures the creature into the lair, and the others set it on fire, hearing a mournful wail as the flames engulf the creature’s home, when it thought it finally found a friend.