[ WP ] A stray child is found near a road in rural Switzerland . After being taken to a hospital , it is discovered that she can only understand/speak Gaulish-a language that has been extinct since 6th century A.D .

Alone and frightened on a road south of Ticino was how they found her, Lilly as she would soon be dubbed. As hard as they tried the police and social workers assigned to Lilly could not get through to the babbling child. Her first caseworker suggested Lilly may have been suffering from abuse. Her inability to speak any discernible language combined with the mangled state of her clothes and her flea infested hair appeared to support that conclusion. Being the largest hospital in the country, she was quickly transferred to Geneva University Hospital for examination where Dr. Walterson took charge of her case. There, despite her unusually frail physique, the doctors concluded she was between five and seven years old. Malnutrition was blamed for the current state of her body. 
 
 What stumped the doctors however was not what they found, but rather what they could not. First it was Lilly ’ s teeth, this girl showed no knowledge of how to use something as simple a toothbrush and her teeth showed no evidence of ever being touched by a dentist. Yet somehow she lacked any form of cavities. It was almost as if this child had never eaten food made from processed sugars. 
 
 Soon after these discoveries her doctors took note of her flu like symptoms. Nausea and diarrhea racked the poor child ’ s form. She was expelling fluids almost as fast as she could consume them. Even food seemed to make her symptoms worse, like her stomach did not know how handle what she was being feed. 
 
 When the seizures started Walterson knew this was something neither him nor his staff had seen before. Something about this child tugged at something deep inside Walterson. This child before him, helpless and unable to communicate, pulled his focus from everything else. 
 
 “ Who are you little one? ” poundered to no one in particular as he looked on into Lilly ’ s room, her resting form concealing the sickness ravaging her tiny body. It was rare these days for the doctor to get a moment ’ s peace these days. Just as the news cycle was starting to forget about the lost little girl, somehow it slipped that she was seriously ill. Then once again the press camped outside the hospital, insistently called the front desk, anything to get an update on the sick child who had become the focus of numerous campaigns of hope. 
 
 “ Vultures. ” He spat at the thought of all those people outside and online. Countless children were sick in hospitals across the world. But all because of her few moments of fame, this one was the only sick child any of them cared about. 
 
 Walterson shook his head. None of that was Lilly ’ s fault. He wondered if she could even comprehend was was going on outside those walls. All this scared child could do is rest while Walterson and his team did all they could to help her. 
 
 
 Many exhaustive tests later they had discovered their culprit, Claviceps Purpurea, a fungus. A fungus whose infections were rarely seen outside of the middle ages. Moist conditions would sometimes cause the Claviceps Purpurea fungus to take root on the ears of rye. Consuming enough of the fungus could cause a condition called Ergotism. 
 
 Walterson was thankful his team identified the disease attacking the child before it was too late. Such a condition was more than treatable if caught early enough. But this still raised the question of where did Lilly come from, and where were her parents? 
 
 With Lilly unable to communicate the police officers assigned to her case were left with nothing but dead ends. No missing persons reports matching her description and no fingerprints on file. Even the tipline proved fruitless. 
 
 It was when the linguistics expert was brought in that Lilly ’ s case took a turn that no one could understand.
