Shelinda was on her way to the temple in Macalania, crossing through the Thunder Plains. She was so upset that the strange man who was one of Lady Yuna's guardians had told her the wedding with Maester Seymour was a false rumour, that she didn't notice portal that had suddenly opened up close to her until she felt herself being sucked in. She screamed and tried to grab onto the lightning tower and held on for dear life, then realized this might be the will of Yevon, so she let go and was sucked away. The portal closed leaving no trace of its presence, and the people who had come running towards the screaming were confused to find nothing.
Reeve was walking back to his apartment when he heard a disturbance in the alleyway. Taking a look, he saw a portal appear and a woman get spit out of it before the portal disappeared again. He ran over to her, wanting to make sure she wasn't hurt. She was wearing an extremely odd outfit.
"Are you okay?" he asked her as he helped her get up off the ground. The woman opened her mouth, but whatever she was saying, it was unintelligible.
Reeve didn't know any foreign languages, so all he could make out was the word Yevon. After she spoke, she made some kind of weird hand gesture and half-bowed. Unsure what else to do, he got his cellphone out and made a call.
Tifa picked up the phone on the first ring, hoping it was Cloud calling back. "Hello? Oh, hi Reeve. What? Are you serious? Um, yeah I think I can be there in a few minutes."
Barret happened to be in the bar at the moment, so Tifa asked him to watch Marlene and Denzel for a little while before leaving. Reeve was the only man she knew who would call for help when they found a woman. She located Reeve and the strange woman still in the alleyway. Tifa didn't understand what the woman was saying either, but she was able to get the message of a safe haven through to her with a weird game of charades.
Shelinda wasn't happy that the man and woman seemed to be speaking a different language, and that it seemed that machina was being used here. But maybe that's why she was here, to show these people the error of their ways. She followed the woman through the city, amazed by everything she saw. How could these people so willingly engage in wickedness? Especially when the woman she was following seemed quite nice.
When they got back to 7th Heaven, Tifa took her in the back way so they could go straight upstairs into her apartment. When she opened the door to the spare bedroom, she realized she hadn't introduced herself.
"Tifa." she said, pointing to herself when she had the woman's attention.
"Shelinda." the woman responded after taking a moment to understand, pointing to herself. Then she made a weird gesture and half-bowed again as Tifa indicated that the room was for her, then left.
Tifa went downstairs and let Barret know he could leave if he wanted, then made a sandwich for Shelinda and went back upstairs. Opening the guest bedroom door, Tifa saw that she had fallen asleep on the bed. She quietly put the plate on the nightstand and left again, carefully closing the door. While Shelinda was sleeping, Tifa could try and find out what language she spoke, then they could find out what was going on.
