One evening, as he stood in the eerily quiet coop, he noticed the chickens behaving strangely. Their usual calm demeanor was replaced with an anxious energy. Their beady eyes were drawn to a section of the house as if magnetized, their feathers bristling, their clucks louder. The source of their fear, it seemed, was not outside the house but within.

Intrigued and slightly perturbed, he followed their gaze to a spot in his house he was yet to renovate, an old wall in the basement. He walked toward the house and followed the gaze of the chickens, straight to the exact spot in the basement they were looking at. What he found there was a small, seemingly innocuous gap. 

Was it this small hole that had upset the chickens so much? He glanced back at his feathery flock, their nervous movements making him even more curious. Could this be the solution to his mystery?