[Kaneda's mind wanders as he listens, shaking the can of black and dark blue and spraypainting over the colours until they can't even be seen. So this Lifestream she's talking about....things are born from it, it nourishes the world, it takes care of it, and when your time is up, you return to it. Seems pretty convenient, really...that it's a neverending resource of life.]

Like water...

[It's soft, as he processes this.]

It's like water. It gets in the air, it rains, falls into the ocean, goes back up to the clouds. It always goes back, right?