There was an eerie silence surrounding her as she carefully wound her way around broken slabs of concrete, twisted struts of metal and the ruins of the largest city in the world. The stench of death and decay was all around her.
Bleached bones stuck out from underneath fallen bricks. The flesh picked clean by vultures, crows and other carrion feasting animals.
She clambered over bricks and sheet metal, small pebbles bouncing off, rattling to the floor. She made her way as if by instinct, to the heart of the city.
The Shinra tower.
It still stood tall in the centre of the ruins. Many of its interior rooms were intact. Structural damage was limited to the outsides of the huge building.
She limped across the plaza in front of the building; you could still see the Shinra symbol blazing on the fallen front wall.
"I used to work for them" The human voice reverberated in her head. "They were my friends."
She continued into the building, making her way up the twisting stair case. She knew this building like the back of her hand. She had been here, worked here before the fall of meteor.
She yowled softly, her chest felt so tight; she just wanted to curl up and never wake up again.
The huge glass windows had long since disintegrated from the heat of the meteor. She sat at the huge open window, looking out over the twinkling lights of Edge and the smaller cluster of twinkling lights that signified the village of Kalm.
Kalm had once been the home of her beloved grandfather.
Tears dripped from her eyes as she thought about him.
How could she ever go back to her family now? She was nothing more than a monster.
She looked down, the drop was pretty high. All she needed to do was take one more step, one tiny step and she would hurtle to the ground. She would be free of this body, free of the pain that still ran through her.
She would no longer be a monster.