Disclaimer: The Xenosaga series is the property of Monolith Software, Inc. and Namco Bandai. I write these fanfictions for love of the game(s) and make no profit off of them.
They found her among the wreckage of an ore-processing satellite. She was young, barely thirteen, blonde and pretty, even with half her face eaten away.
They named her Betty, to soothe their consciences, and they studied her in her tank-tomb while her body slowly rotted, not with decomposition but some sickness that Gnosis granted those who were reluctant to shatter at their touch.
They counted themselves lucky to retrieve her so soon after her first and only contact with the Gnosis; the data her cadaver held was immeasurable.
They found it hard to look straight at her.
But they tried.