I still haven't found her. I've checked the entire ship and I've started to ask the people on the other ship to look for her, but nothing.
...so.
Does anyone want to hear a story to pass the time?
Okay, let's see. Where do I begin? I guess I could go the Koizumi route with this.
It was three years ago. There was a girl, who had been fed up with how normal life was and how she seemed to be just one small person in a world filled with billions of people. They were all for the most part, ordinary. She wanted to interact with the extraordinary, be it people from other worlds, or from different times. Who knows what else she wanted to do, she obviously hadn't shown many signs of being bright at all.
...anyway. As she went into Junior High, she decided that she wanted to contact aliens during the Tanabata Festival. So, she snuck into the school after hours and decided to draw pictures-- no, write a message to Orihime and Hikoboshi. This part of the story would become legendary and the girl would immediately become well known in high school, where she'd continue to search for those ridiculous things that she wanted.
But, there was a twist to the story that many people don't know about.
At that same time, a boy from a nearby high school happened to be passing by with his sister in a wheelbarrow. Don't ask why she was in the wheelbarrow, she just was. After asking the apparently insane girl what she was doing, he decided to help her. In fact, help is the wrong word to use. He actually drew the message for her, as she barked out orders to him. As he finished, she asked him his name. He didn't want to give out his real name, so he simply replied with a horrible quickly thought up name.
'John Smith.'
Since then, the world had been drastically changed, and things have been moving in a different direction.
This is all I know about the story right now. I just picked up bits and pieces from what I remember Nagato telling me. In fact, I think she told me not to really tell this story at all.
Get it? Nagato, if you're out there. Come back, or I'm telling everyone the rest of the story. I'll even e-mail it to that person if it comes down to it.
On a completely unrelated note, I really need some sleep.