The authorities had never seen anything like it. At first no-one paid the rumours any heed, believing them to have about as much basis in fact as Jumbo Cactuar sightings or claims of alien abduction out in Winhill. Then a local police officer caught sight of her one day, scuttling between switching stations like a wild thing.
"Tiny girl, couldn't have been much older than four or five," he said, shaking his head slowly. "Stark naked she was, huggin' one of those big engines and kissin' it like her own mother."
That changed things. Shortly afterwards the authorities came in the night, watching and waiting until a train pulled into the yard. The girl followed soon after, crooning softly to herself as she slunk along on all fours. With incredulous eyes they saw how she petted the cars, talking to them in a language no-one present could decipher.
When she was finally captured, the child whistled and clawed and hooted like a steam engine. The Timber authorities did their best to civilize her, gave her a bright yellow dress not even the city's poor had wanted, and shipped her off to an orphanage, hoping someone else would have better luck with the pitiful thing.
FFVIII: Selphie/TRAINZ
"Tiny girl, couldn't have been much older than four or five," he said, shaking his head slowly. "Stark naked she was, huggin' one of those big engines and kissin' it like her own mother."
That changed things. Shortly afterwards the authorities came in the night, watching and waiting until a train pulled into the yard. The girl followed soon after, crooning softly to herself as she slunk along on all fours. With incredulous eyes they saw how she petted the cars, talking to them in a language no-one present could decipher.
When she was finally captured, the child whistled and clawed and hooted like a steam engine. The Timber authorities did their best to civilize her, gave her a bright yellow dress not even the city's poor had wanted, and shipped her off to an orphanage, hoping someone else would have better luck with the pitiful thing.