#tilly.

tilly was picked up by dutch on the street when she was 15 in 1894

she was malnourished and very distrusting of strangers after her ordeal with the foreman brothers and didn't have many options

dutch bought her a meal and offered her a place to stay back at camp.

tilly would do chores and was looked after by hosea and miss grimshaw. dutch and hosea taught her how to read and write. arthur taught her how to play dominoes and she'd go on to beat him almost everytime they played

unlike most people her age, the only time josie could really escape from her house was when she snuck out to go to work. she had snuck out for other things like the occasional burger at freddy’s and as much as she was done trying to appease her parents, their conditioning to make her feel guilt no matter what she did was something that was a bit harder to unlearn. so even though most people would view this as somewhat of a monotonous job, josie viewed it as the closest thing she had to freedom. walking into high volume was like a breath of fresh air for the teenager.