>>5603144Numerous bleached bones are sitting by the tracks. They aren't clustered all in one spot, but instead stretch across the length of the wood and metal. Some are dried and mummified, and you can barely recognize the species they come from. The newer ones are mostly Pidove. It doesn't look like scavengers have violently ripped the bodies apart either. It just seems like dozens of creatures have died and been left relatively unattended.
The tracks are where you finally spot the native Charjabug as well. They're milling around, and a couple are ripping apart a dead bird. It's one of the ones who flapped in here earlier.
"What... happened there?" Liam asks, his face growing pale.
You stare at the graveyard, doing your best to piece it together. You didn't see anything about major apex predators in the Trainyard, and it's not like anything here has the habit of killing things and decorating places with their bodies. The bones don't look like they've been chewed up that badly either, like a Rockruff or something might have done. As you walk across the platform, remaining behind the yellow safety line, it finally clicks when you see a few Charjabug biting the tracks directly.
"The third rail."
"What?"
"Trains. You know how there's a part of the track that can kill you if you touch it?"
"No?! I've never heard of that. Is that a real thing?" He asks, incredulous.
"Yeah, it is. Look, the Electric-types can touch it without issue. They're even siphoning power from it. I guess that's what a lot of them feed off. But it seems like Pokémon who can't take that sort of voltage just end up getting zapped."
After he observes the scene for a bit longer, he nods in agreement. It'd be hard for scavengers to pull the bodies away without risking death. Pokémon probably can't figure out the actual mechanics behind it, but they're smart enough to figure out that if they touch that rail, they magically die. That's why a lot of the corpses look older, apart from the newcomers. Pidove are becoming a painfully common sight.
