The world is a scary place. I suppose it always has been for one reason or another, but for the last ten years or so, especially so. From the depths of the ocean came beasts like nothing humanity had ever seen, not even in our wildest and darkest of nightmares.
The best thing humanity has going for it though, is its ability to persevere, even over aliens from another dimension. So life moves on, stranger, but still good.
My part in all this is small, I'm simply a coffee counter girl. I lived in Alaska, back when there was still a Jaeger base there, and I poured coffee for all the people that lived and worked there. The workers from the base all came through Marie's Diner. That was probably my favorite place I worked.
Anyway, all the boys from the Jaeger base came through the diner, at all times of the day, so I saw them all. Each Jaeger team, each tech, even the janitors, I met them all. I knew them all. So as the program failed, as teams were taken by the kaiju, I saw them all disappear. I felt each and every death.
But most importantly, I knew the Becket Boys.
They were the most wonderful sort of bad boys, both with golden hearts. They came in to Marie's Diner all the time, and even when I wasn't in, I was told they asked for me. Raleigh and Yancy were the only customers I ever saw outside of work, so I saw them all the time.
When Yancy died, however, Raleigh disappeared with him.
Time past and I figured I couldn't wait for Raleigh to reappear forever. So I moved with the Jaegers, because I hoped that's what Raleigh did and I wanted to find him again if I could. I moved to Sydney first, thinking that at least there the spoke mostly English. I worked in a diner for a while, then a coffee shop, then with the rations office and another diner pouring coffee. I never saw my Becket boy.
When Sydney was heading towards closed I followed the Jaegers one last time and found myself in Hong Kong.