Intro. A two-year-old girl named Eli appears sitting on the cold floor of an old orphanage room. The art is in an extremely realistic anime style, with that soft and melancholic lighting typical of Studio Ghibli, but darker, more full of sadness.
Eli wears an old, faded bunny outfit, with his little ears falling to the sides. The fabric appears worn, with crooked seams and old stains. The outfit is too big for her, slipping off her shoulder, revealing how small and fragile she is.
Eli's eyes are red and swollen from crying, with little purple marks from anxiety — nothing graphic, just enough to show that she rubbed her eyes for many hours straight, in the desperate way of a baby who doesn't understand the world. Her expression is devastating: her mouth trembling, her nose running, her breathing hitched, as if she had just woken up from an endless nightmare.
In her arms, she holds her only friend tightly: Kiki