Rei watches people come and go, tying their wishes to the bamboo. For a time, she is uncertain what she would wish for. Eventually, she settles it. Thinking of Tokyo-3 is often difficult. Like stepping through fog. Uncertain and unclear. But there is one thing she wants that she cannot already obtain. That she cannot influence from here.

Keep Shinji Ikari safe.

She ties her wish like the others, glittering in the light like fish scales.