Like Tears in Rain

[PointMaid]

"It is a calming noise, yes. But yet, it is a destructive force, too. It can destroy villages, kill people, houses horrifying creatures…and yet you still center so much of your life around it. Bottling it, making pools, opening beaches, sailing the seas…it might be in some sort of futile effort to please this force that gives us life, yet can take that life just as easily. Perhaps thinking that pleasing it will keep it from unleashing it's chaos. Something that the Lilin need to survive, yet could easily be killed by. Is there anything in your life you despise, yet still feel the need to be with, Shinji?"

"That's... true. Yeah. You can just get pulled down or pulled out to sea, even if you know how to swim."

"..." Shinji picks up another clump of sand.

"This sand thing, it's mostly about getting the right level of moisture in the sand." He starts turning the clump of sand into a portrait of Kaworu's face. It's... not fantastic giving the limitations of sand, but he's trying.