The next day at school, Takeru sat waiting for his new favorite to pass through the gates, still not even knowing her name as he watched patiently. "What if she doesn't come today..? What if.... What if that was another 'dream'..." He thought back to all the times he had hallucinated encounters with humans in a feeble attempt to become less lonely. Remembering his ex-girlfriend and 'friends' he had met in his form, those whom he talked to in his spare time atop the roof of the school, saying over and over again to them, "When will the wind return?"<br/><br/>He looked up as he thought of them, staring past the school gates to the quiet city. "If you guys can hear me... I'm doing fine... I made a new friend." He stands slowly, perched perfectly on the gate as though he were as majestic as an eagle.