She is a boring girl—too tall, too skinny, too Japanese. She wants to be exciting... but she's afraid her mind is preprogrammed to think normal, boring, rational thoughts. There's no way for her to go out there and just be herself, because she is always being herself.

But in the water, she is something else. She is the water and its gentle, life-giving, cleansing, powerful, destructive nature. She is the incredible, mysterious world it engulfs, life, death, everything she wants to be and more.

Out of the water, she can only be herself.

That, she considers, is all right.


A/N: This must be Cloverfield-inspired or something. I never write about Akira. D: