Witness Report #442-A
Recorded in the village nearby of Lancerre, Kirishin.
Witness: Albrecht Renner, age 83.
Occupation: Retired shepherd.
Interviewer: State your name for the record.
Witness: Albrecht Renner.
Interviewer: You claim you encountered an unknown individual in the forest?
Witness: Aye.
Interviewer: Describe what you saw.
Witness: First thing I noticed was how small she was. Thought she was a lost child at first.
Interviewer: Female?
Witness: Looked like one. Hard to tell. She couldn't have been more than four feet tall.
Interviewer: What was she doing?
Witness: Sitting on a fallen tree beside the creek. Just watching the water.
Interviewer: Did she speak?
Witness: Eventually.
Interviewer: Continue.
Witness: I asked if she was lost.
She looked at me funny.
Then she asked:
"Can somebody be lost if they know where they are?"
Strangest thing anybody ever said to me.
Interviewer: Appearance?
Witness: Long ears.
Not Annuko ears.
Longer.
Pointed.
Her hair looked silver at first. Then when clouds passed overhead it looked green.
Thought my eyes were playing tricks on me.
Interviewer: What about her eyes?
Witness: That's the part nobody believes.
They weren't glowing.
Not exactly.
Looked like there were little stars moving inside them.
Like I was looking through a window into the night sky.
Interviewer: Did she identify herself?
Witness: No.
Wouldn't answer direct questions.
Every answer was another question.
Interviewer: Example?
Witness: I asked where she lived.
She asked:
"Do rivers live where they begin or where they end?"
I still don't know what that means.
Interviewer: Did she appear dangerous?
Witness: No.
Honestly, she looked curious.
Like a child seeing something for the first time.
Only difference was she looked at everything like she'd already seen it a thousand times before.
Interviewer: Did anything unusual occur?
Witness: The forest got quiet.
No birds.
No insects.
No wind.
Everything just stopped.
Not in a scary way.
Just... listening.
Interviewer: Then what happened?
Witness: We talked for maybe an hour.
Maybe five minutes.
Couldn't tell.
Then she stood up.
Asked me one last thing.
Interviewer: What did she ask?
Witness:
"Why do people fear disappearing when everything eventually becomes part of something else?"
Then she walked into the trees.
Interviewer: And?
Witness:
And she was gone.
No footprints.
No broken branches.
Nothing.
Just gone.
Interviewer: Do you believe she was a Fei?
Witness:
Son, I'm eighty-three years old.
I've seen wolves walk on frozen rivers.
I've seen Nyaanese airships bigger than mountains.
I've seen Magha storms turn noon into midnight.
I don't know what she was.
But she wasn't a child.
And she wasn't human.
Investigator Notes:
No physical evidence recovered.
Witness remained consistent through six separate interviews.
Local hunters independently reported an unidentified small female figure in the same forest over a period of twenty-three years.
Descriptions remained remarkably similar despite the passage of time.
Case remains unresolved.
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