Chapter 1: Navi
As Lain Iwakura walked home from school, she didn't know that she was about to be introduced to the "Wired". While she was gone, her father had come home early to set up her new Navi. Lain started to walk into her room while her dad was connecting her computer. Lain went to go sit at her desk and her dad stood behind her. " Talk to it … say your name", he said as he put one of his hands on her shoulders. Lain looked at the computer curiously. She thought about talking into it and looked up are her father. He gave her a nod and smile. She looked at the Navi and slowly said, "Lain". The computer worked to make the network hers, all hers, to her disposal. Finally the computer says in a mechanical little girl voice " Welcome user Lain. You have mail. Would you like to check it?" Lain typed in the letters "Y-E-S"
Her father left the room so she could explore the Wired herself and figure out her new computer. The e-mil was from a girl named Chisa, a girl that had just killed herself a few days before by jumping off a roof in an alleyway. It read:
Hello Lain,
How are you? Do you remember when we walked from school? Thank you. I know there is a rumor going around that this e-mail is a prank, but it's not. I am still alive. I have just abandoned my body. In this world there is a God. Lain please come as soon as you can to the Wired.
From,
Chisa
Lain looked at the computer blankly and got scared. She reread the letter a few more times as the computer also read it to her. Sitting in her dark room almost crying still in her uniform from school she goes and takes a shower. After she puts on her teddy bear pajamas, she looks around the house for he dad to tell him she is thankful.
Walking back into her room Lain goes and looked at her new computer, which was glowing a dark bluish color threw out the room. She looked down at her bear slippers and whispers to her self, " Why did you kill yourself Chisa? How are you still alive?" Think about it made her head hurt. How could somebody just kill himself or herself? Why would they go to the Wired? Time could only tell. She wished she could find out soon. Maybe she could find out tomorrow at school when she talked to her friend Arisu or maybe her dad if she could find him tomorrow. But now she would sleep and dream of teddy bears and her friends Chisa and Arisu. Maybe she will find something out soon.