This one is wonky beyond the usual, and I pick on Togusa. Again. Can you tell I had fun with symbolism?
He was having strange dreams. At first, Togusa thought that it was the cyborg food he'd eaten that day. But they persisted, every night for three weeks. A woman with large white wings, face more perfect that Aphrodite stepped onto the backs of a river from the sky. From the opposite side a man walked from the forest, his eyes gouged out but in no pain. In their hands, they held timber and rope; and they began to make a bridge.
He didn't know them. Familiar, perhaps, but by the fourth night he couldn't remember whether it was because he had seen them so often in dreams or because he knew them in real life. He wanted to help them, but in the dreams he was intangible and they did not even appear to be aware of his presence. Each night they built the bridge… but when they tried to lay the last boards into their places a flood came and swept it all away. And the next night, battered and bedraggled, they would begin again.
Then, one night, they paused in their building and looked at each other. They did not speak; that he could hear. But he felt something happen, and when they both laid down their materials and knelt, eyes locked, on either side he understood. They could not be together by decree of fate. And so, close enough to just barely brush hands if they reached across the water, they would wait.
PS- a nod to Ironical Jester for Motoko's symbol as an angel.