The day she returned from the bath house, Chihiro chose to spell her name wrong. Although her parents always treated that missing time as some strange, tasteless prank, Chihiro remembered with chills how helpless her parents had been, and how easily her name had been stolen, the ink fading into Yu-Baba's hand. Would poor spelling have locked her name away?
Many things about that time inspired nightmares – her parents' abrupt transformation into pigs, getting chased by No-Face, seeing Haku in his dragon form inches from death – but the thing that woke her up in a cold sweat was what she had shouted when Haku showed her where her parents were kept: "Mom! Dad! Remember me? It's me, Sen!" She hadn't even noticed.
