Most people think the world is exactly what it seems.
They're wrong. Sometimes the lights flicker and
something else slips through. A whisper in the static, a
shimmer in the mirror. A feeling in your bones that
you're not quite alone. And then there's me.
Archibald Wolfington, Old English Bulldog, ex agent, Still
handsome, still dangerous, especially before my morning
biscuit. I'm Aaron Draycott, tech expert,
accidental narrator, and human to a bulldog with a serious case
of I know more secrets than you. Not secrets, love classified
memories. Welcome to Tales of the Veil, a
magical mystery podcast where the world you know is only half
the story. And the rest that's buried
beneath your feet, mates, tangled in leashes and stitched
into enchanted collars. Trust me, you're going to want
tea for this. This is.
Tales of. The.
Veil tea for two. Hi again.
I'm Aaron, just a systems engineer hooked on caffeine and
late night burrito runs. You know the kind.
The ones that can feel somehow illicit.
Or at least I was just a systems engineer.
You see, my whole life was a series of logical variables. 1 +
1 = 2. But now my dog talks, a cat
purrs with a digital hum, and a ghost from our past leaves bread
crumbs in a language that's not code, not magic, but something
in between. I used to think my instincts
were just that, gut feelings. But Archie calls it the Spark.
He says I'm Veil born, a descendant of the Dragonian
line, and I've ice blue dragon electricity or something running
through my veins. But I'm starting to think he's
right. It feels like having a second
operating system running in the background, a foundational code
that I'm only now learning how to access.
It's an odd thing, knowing your reality is a network and you're
a user with root access you never asked for, and a little
terrifying. It's also liberating knowing
that all my oddities weren't just me being quirky, but me
rerouting static into a signal I didn't know how to use.
My ancestors were architects of the veil itself.
They laid the cables. Now it seems it's my job to
learn their language. The game is changing, but at
last I think I have the manual.