There is something in the woods

Imaging if you will that you are an adventurer born and raised in a fantasy world, with no memories of a previous life. One day you are tasked with finding something in a rarely visited part the woods. You decide to set up camp for the night outside of that part of the woods were you are then visited by a old woman that wants to tell you a story that she says might save your life. A story of how she was attacked by something in the woods when she was still a child and her return to the forest years later, forced to be there by a scorned nobel lady. A journey only she would survive by helping the creature trapped in the forest by using the object that you are tasked to retrieve and that the world only knows of because to old lady couldn´t keep her mouth shut. So will you listen to her story?