Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-71.187.183.141-20151221025436/@comment-26397825-20151221060744

A ticket to Patch may still be outside the normal buying powers of a fifteen year old girl. It's like buying a plane ticket interstate but still in-country, in most countries anyway. You can put your kid on the plane alone, but they can't go buy the ticket themselves, you have to buy the ticket for them.

Taiyang may have bough the ticket for Ruby to come home, and she may have gotten on whatever transport it was alone. Then he dropped her off at the station, where she could take the ride back.

Still allows for a massive public transport system, but also means kids can't just hop on a plane to Vacuo and run away from home. The farthest they can get is the other end of the city (which is still pretty bloody far, too be honest. But at least they're still in the same country).