Kaiju Logbook Draft

''Sergeant, I'm going to need a VERY good explanation for this if you don't want me calling security right this instant.''

''Ma'am, our team was underground, planting sonar relays to chart the recently discovered cave system down south. We were hunkered down after feeling some quakes from deeper in, prayin' we didn't end up trapped by rockfall. The shakin' quieted down after a while, 'n we advanced down the caverns to get to the survey point where the above-ground scans went dark. We found charred lemurians all over, and somethin' had wallered out a bunch'a holes all down the cave. Melted right through solid rock. Magma worm. Thinking it had already moved on, we kept goin'. We reached the spot to plant the beacon, turns out it was a cavern big enough to park the ship in. I had reckoned we must have found the magma worm's home.''

''Is this going to get to a point any time soon? I want to know why I've got a CHILD, covered in ash, on this ship, halfway across the known universe from any other children, sat on my triage table!''

''Quakes started back up and the three of us holed up in a tunnel. We heard these mighty roars, damn near blew our ears out. I could just about peer into the cavern still, and I saw the magma worm that we had rightly assumed was causing the quakes. It was getting thrown 'round by a gigantic lemurian; would tower over them big yellow ones. Them worms are dozens of meters long, and the lemurian was manhandling 'im. Slammed it to the ground, pinned it by the tail, and ripped the whole worm clear in half. Length-wise, from the jaw on down. Afterwards, it just sat down and slumped over. Like a littl'un after he's had his fill of a tantrum. Let out this... sob?.. That's the best I could describe it. A howl, maybe? I don't know if it was pain, or some'n else. We ran out into all the dust that got kicked up to investigate, and found the kid crying, curled up in a ball next to the what was left of the worm. We scratched the mission and took her right on back to the ship.''

''And that's your full report, nothing about where this child actually came from, or how she ended up planet-side, or how she survived into her teens, seemingly on her own?''

''I'm telling you what I saw and did, ma'am. If'n I find out more, you'll be the first to hear.''

''And what in the hell is she wearing?''

''Looked to me like she was in some kinda pajamas, ma'am; but that's a lemurian hide. Seen them things too close up to mistake it for anything else. And I'd recognize those devil horns it's got anywhere, after what I just witnessed.''