Carter visibly brightened, encouraged by her friendliness. Yes, a scientific note, Japanese women were nicer. He nodded happily and tucked the word away for lately use in an inappropriate context.

"I've never been up here at night, I didn't even know we had a chapel," he said. "But last night, wow, we were all over the place, in a doctor's office and then in the woods and then in a pet store. By the way, have you seen a girl named Kairi? We were together and then I woke up and she was gone. She's a nice girl, I don't want anything bad to have happened to her." And she'd been the first person not to tease him about Mary Jane and tell him to move on, or compare her to fish or wars.