Meetings in the Dark...

Dr. Naoko Akagi

Oh for crying out loud, my daughter still has a thing for cats?! When I saw that she no longer had that idiotic “Hello Kitty” cellphone I had believed she had moved on, but apparently not to far, alas. That said, why does she still have her cellphone ringer on, after seeing everything here at GEHIRN . . .I mean NERV is in the state that it is in! Nearly had a heart attack when it went off there!

It has all to do with this business about some kind of "mixing" between the "manga" and "anime" version of my reality. See, the layout is . . . different from what I know had been planned. My daughter is in agreement. This Geofront is somewhat different in detail, albeit somewhat similar. Just not enough for easy navigation.

Ritsuko had made a nervous joke about having more sympathy now for her friend’s , Misato Katsuragi’s, knack in getting switched around within NERV. She’d whispered it quietly, almost afraid that too much noise would have awaken the figures of statue still NERV personnel here and there in this complex. They appear to have been immobilized, frozen in time.

Whatever the case, they look like they had been in a VERY desperate (and dangerous) situation and might not take too kindly to unwelcome guests?

We must be cautious, my gut instinct tells me. My daughter, more familiar with the environment of this day and age had agreed.

. . .

Honestly, I would have felt better to have been told by her that my fears had been misplaced and security would not be so tight (and paranoid) so as not kill intruders dead. Sigh, then again this IS (or had BEEN) a top secret paramilitary organization . . .and so security is bound to be a bit heavy handed, alas.

Heh, yeah I know! You think I am one to talk! But let me tell you something. That elf (oh god . . .tell me that I'm not having some kind of weird dream here) might have said that I was going to strangle that little . . .poor girl named Rei I. I was going to spank her, damnit! I mean, think about it! What good would it have done me (or HER) if I was going to do something monstrous like that?!

I would have done the spanking (out of anger, granted) to . . .instill what I felt was a drastic lack of good manners. One does not call a grownup of middle age (and female) and OLD HAG.

God, if such an entity exists, must have a very sick sense of humor! Or maybe that Author we'd caught a glimpse of there for a second? It seems that he (or she, couldn't tell the gender) has something to do with all this switching between my reality and it's "manga" counterpart. At a guess, the manga version of me was actually responsible for killing Reika (in her first incarnation).

. . .

I think I'm going to be sick here once I actually have time to actually let it all sink in...

But as for that little girl's ill advised words . . . I at least know I would have felt VERY bad about myself. Later I would have, really upon finding out that the little girl had no idea what an "old hag" happened to be, let us just say.

Still, at least she would have only had a blistered bottom and not forced into a . . .second incarnation for god's sake.

It is almost too fantastic to believe, that last. I had suspicions that perhaps that Rei I had been a clone of Yui Akari. The girl looked too similar to be coincidence, you know. Saw it even through that youthful face of hers, you see. And the fact that all records of her had been erased was . . . suspicious as well.

Still, never in my wildest nightmares...

But that is hardly something to talk about as my daughter grabs at her phone and yanks it out, answering it.

1. "What?!" she hisses quietly (but angrily) into it after we had hurriedly scurried around a corner and into a spot out (hopefully) of range of prying ears and eyes for the moment.

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